Marcion and Prometheus : Balthasar against the expulsion of Jewish origins in modern religious thought / by Anthony C. Sciglitano, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sciglitano, Anthony C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Balthasar, Hans Urs von, 1905-1988.

Balthasar, Hans Urs von.

Marcion, of Sinope, active 2nd century.

Marcion.

Judaism (Christian theology).

Physical Description:

xxv, 219 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Herder & Herder, [2014]

Summary:

This incisive, accessible study highlights Hans Urs von Balthasar's response to "Promethean" critics of Christianity from romantics such as Shelley to the philosophical likes of Feuerbach and Marx, focusing on these critics' unrelenting rejection of the religious claims of historical Judaism. The attributes of the Christian God which such humanists find most unpalatable-such as fatherhood, authority, and transcendence-are precisely those that were inherited from Judaism. According to von Balthasar, such critics have inadvertently reinvented the patristic-era heresy of Marcionism, which posits a radical and false dichotomy between the message of the Hebrew bible and that of the New Testament. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 An Anti-Marcionite Theological Aesthetic 1

1.a Balthasar and the Genealogy of Modern Marcionism 6

1.b The Hermeneutics of Anti-Marcionism 25

1.c Israel's Apophatic Pedagogy 37

Conclusion 40

2 Against the Idols: Divine Encounter, Prophetic Covenant 43

2.a Encounter with Glory 46

2.b Biblical Encounter versus Hegelian Prometheanism 50

2.c The Central Plot and the Forms of Glory 53

2.d Theophany and Covenant 57

2.e Theological Anthropology 62

Conclusion 78

3 Balthasar and the Encounter with Post-Biblical Judaism 81

3.a Kenotic Continuity: Encounter and Recapitulation 83

3.b Kenosis and Discontinuity 89

3.c Post-biblical Israel: Israel's Redemption 94

3.d A Lonely Dialogue: Christianity and Judaism in the Context of Prometheanism 100

Conclusion 106

4 Judaism, the Nations, and Christological Hospitality 111

4.a Incarnation as Erotic Integration 112

4.b Excursus on The Truth of the World: A Covenantal Ontology 126

4.c Judaism and the Nations 136

4.d A Cruciform Theology of Religions 146

Conclusion 150.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780824520168

0824520165

OCLC:

872557792