The early Hans Urs von Balthasar : historical contexts and intellectual formation / Paul Silas Peterson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peterson, Paul Silas, 1979- author.

Series:

Theologische Bibliothek Töpelmann ; 170. Bd.

Theologische Bibliothek Töpelmann, 0563-4288 ; Volume 170

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Balthasar, Hans Urs von, 1905-1988.

Balthasar, Hans Urs von.

Electronic books.

Theology and Religious Studies--Modern Christian Thinkers and Philosophers of Religion--Other 20th-Century Thinkers.

Theology and Religious Studies.

Theology and Religious Studies--Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion--Systematic Theology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (398 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Although Hans Urs von Balthasar's earliest publication is from 1925, and although he was a mature forty years old in 1945, there is a deficiency in the secondary literature regarding his early literature, its historical backgrounds and non-theological sources. In this study Balthasar is presented in relation to the various contexts in which he was both drawing upon and responding to from the 1920's to the 1940's. The major contexts analyzed here are the broad central European Germanophone cultural context, the Germanophone Catholic cultural context, the German studies context, the French Catholic renewal literature and theology of the early 20th-century, the popular journal Stimmen der Zeit, Neo-Scholasticism, early 20th-century French Catholic culture, Swiss fascism, National Socialist literature, the Renouveau Catholique, the George-Kreis and many others. Balthasar's early anti-Semitism and some of the problematic aspects of his early work are also addressed in this study. His understanding of the modern age, his relationships with some key intellectual figures and his later reflections on his early work are also introduced. The book offers a comprehensive study of Balthasar's early intellectual development.

Contents:

Front matter

Preface

Contents

Short Titles and Abbreviations

Historical Table

Introduction and Historical Contexts

Chapter One: Studies and early cultural criticism

Chapter Two: Guardini, Goethe, Nietzsche and literature theology

Chapter Three: The George-Kreis, myth and the Conservative Revolution

Chapter Four: Volk, deutsche Seele and the "Staat-Kirche-Gesellschaft" totality

Chapter Five: Nazi Germany and Stimmen der Zeit

Chapter Six: Erich Przywara and Karl Barth

Chapter Seven: The anti-modern anti-Semitic complex

Chapter Eight: Renouveau Catholique, Neo-Scholasticism and Nouvelle Théologie

Bibliography

Name Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110376043

3110376040

9783110387254

3110387255

OCLC:

979847163