Balthasar on the Spiritual Senses - Perceiving Splendour

In this study, Mark McInroy argues that the 'spiritual senses' play a crucial yet previously unappreciated role in the theological aesthetics of Hans Urs von Balthasar. The doctrine of the spiritual senses typically claims that human beings can be made capable of perceiving non-corporeal, 'spiritual' realities.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: "In the Spirit of Origen:" Balthasar's Exploration of Patristic Versions of the Spiritual Senses


• 2: Balthasar's Reading of Medieval and Early Modern Versions of the Spiritual Senses


• 3: The Spiritual Senses in a Modern Idiom: Balthasar's Contemporary Interlocutors


• 4: Balthasar's Distinctive Rearticulation of the Doctrine of the Spiritual Senses


• 5: Perceiving Splendor: The Role of the Spiritual Senses in Balthasar's Theological Aesthetics


• 6: Seeing (Spiritually) is Believing: The Spiritual Senses and Faith


• Conclusion

About the author

Mark McInroy is Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of St Thomas.

Summary

In this study, Mark McInroy argues that the 'spiritual senses' play a crucial yet previously unappreciated role in the theological aesthetics of Hans Urs von Balthasar. The doctrine of the spiritual senses typically claims that human beings can be made capable of perceiving non-corporeal, 'spiritual' realities.

Product details

• Authors: Mark McInroy, Mark (Assistant Professor of Systematic T Mcinroy, Mark (Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology McInroy, McInroy Mark
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.06.2014
• EAN: 9780199689002
• ISBN: 978-0-19-968900-2
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology; Changing Paradigms in Historic
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Religious writings, prayers, songbooks, religious meditations; RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic, RELIGION / Spirituality, 20th Century, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Christian spirituality & religious experience, Spirituality and religious experience, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church