The Apologetic Value of Human Holiness: Von Balthasar’s by Victoria S. Harrison

By Victoria S. Harrison

The Apologetic price of Human Holiness starts off through offering the 1st accomplished account of the version of human holiness constructed by means of the best theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar. In so doing, the ebook additionally offers the 1st unique explication of his Christocentric philosophical anthropology.
half 2 argues that von Balthasar anticipates a few key advancements in overdue twentieth-century Anglo-American analytical philosophy, and that sure of those advancements - specifically, the `internal realism' of Hilary Putnam - offer strong aid for von Balthasar's theological philosophy.
the ultimate half elucidates von Balthasar's center instinct that human holiness is of tremendous apologetic worth for spiritual religion, and concludes with a brand new, `internalist' conception of spiritual pluralism.
The Apologetic worth of Human Holiness can be visible as an very important and unique contribution to either Philosophy of faith and Theology, and is probably going to end up crucial analyzing in upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate classes in either subjects.

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