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A generous symphony : Hans Urs von Balthasar's literary revelations / Christopher D. Denny.
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TextDescription: xii, 313 pages ; 24 cmISBN: - 9781451487954
- 1451487959
- Hans Urs von Balthasar's literary revelations
- BX4705.B163 D46 2016
Contents:
Introduction: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-301) and index.
Introduction: 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.
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