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020			_a9781451487954 (hardback)
020			_a 1451487959 (hardback)
020			_a9781506418933 (electronic bk.)
020			_a1506418937 (electronic bk.)
050			_aBX4705.B16 _bD46 2016
100			_aDenny, Christopher D. (Christopher Douglas),
245			_aA generous symphony : _bHans Urs von Balthasar's literary revelations / _cChristopher D. Denny.
246			_aHans Urs von Balthasar's literary revelations
260			_aMinneapolis : _bFortress Press, _c2016.
300			_axii, 313 pages ; _c24 cm
500			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 277-301) and index.
505			_aIntroduction: a theology of literature as Christian revelation -- 1. A literary-historical reading of Hans Urs von Balthasar and his sources -- 2. "Only in the West": Christian foreshadowings in ancient Greece -- 3. Myth or philosophy? Defending literature's preeminence -- 4. Dante and the eschatological limits of literature -- 5. The theater of reconciliation in Shakespeare and Calderón -- 6. The rise of Promethean salvation in German Romanticism -- 7. After the fall of Christendom: children, celibates, and other idiots.
600			_bBalthasar, Hans Urs von, _d1905-1988.
650			_aChristianity and literature.
650			_aRevelation _xChristianity.
942			_2lcc _cBK
999			_c56296 _d56296