Synopses & Reviews
Does all knowledge of God come through Christ alone, or can human beings discover truths about God philosophically? The Analogy of Being assembles essays by expert Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox theologians to examine the relationship between divine revelation in the person of Jesus Christ and the philosophical capacities of natural reason. These essays were inspired by the lively, decades-long debate between Karl Barth and Erich Przywara, which was first sparked in 1932 when Barth wrote that the use of natural theology in Roman Catholic thinking was the invention of the Antichrist. The contributors to The Analogy of Being analyze and reflect on both sides of Barth and Przywaras spirited discourse, offering diverse responses to a controversy reaching to the very core of Christian faith and theology. It would be difficult to match the range and quality of commentators on this historic exchange between a Catholic philosopher and a renowned Reformed theologian on a subject of enduring significance, given the centrality of analogy to any issue in philosophical theology. Moreover, the contributions exhibit how the issues have come to span ecclesial boundaries as their import has progressively evolved. A splendid collection David Burrell, C.S.C. Uganda Martyrs University A profound testimony to the enduring significance of the analogia entis debate between Erich Przywara and Karl Barth. Hans Boersma Regent College In a fresh ecumenical context, this extraordinary volume rekindles the mid-twentieth-century encounter between ressourcement thinkers and metaphysical theology. The voices of Przywara, Barth, Balthasar, and others speak anew through leading theologians of our own day in these masterfully orchestrated essays. Matthew Levering University of Dayton
Synopsis
Explores whether human minds can truly discover God without Christ Does all knowledge of God come through Christ alone, or can human beings discover truths about God philosophically?
The Analogy of Being assembles essays by expert Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox theologians to examine the relationship between divine revelation in the person of Jesus Christ and the philosophical capacities of natural reason.
These essays were inspired by the lively, decades-long debate between Karl Barth and Erich Przywara, which was first sparked in 1932 when Barth wrote that the use of natural theology in Roman Catholic thinking was the -invention of the anti-Christ.- The contributors to
The Analogy of Being analyze and reflect on both sides of Barth and Przywara's spirited discourse, offering diverse responses to a controversy reaching to the very core of Christian faith and theology.
Contributors: - John R. Betz
- Martin Bieler
- Peter Casarella
- J. Augustine Di Noia
- Michael Hanby
- David Bentley Hart
- Reinhard Hutter
- Bruce D. Marshall
- Bruce L. McCormack
- Kenneth Oakes
- Richard Schenk
- John Webster
- Thomas Joseph White
Table of Contents
Introduction : The "analogia entis" controversy and its contemporary significance / Thomas Joseph White -- I. Reconsidering the Theological Contours of the Original Debate : -- 1. After Barth : a new introduction to Erich Pryzywara's Analogia Entis / John R. Betz -- 2. Karl Barth's version of an "analogy of being" : a dialectical no and yes to Roman Catholicism / Bruce L. McCormack -- II. Ecumenical Proposals : -- 3. The cross and the "analogia entis" in Erich Przywara / Kenneth Oakes -- 4. Analogy as the "discrimen naturae et gratiae" : Thomism and ecumenical learning / Richard Schenk -- 5. Hans Urs von Balthasar, Erich Przywara's "analogia entis," and the problem of a Catholic "Denkform" / Peter Casarella -- III. The Analogy of Being and Thomistic Ressourcement : -- 6. Attending the the wisdom of God, from effect to cause, from creation to God : a "relecture" of the analogy of being according to Thomas Aquinas / Reinhard H