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Claritas Initiative on Beauty, Goodness, and Truth
Page 1. SJT 64(1): 4563 (2011) C o Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 2010 doi:10.1017/S0036930610001055 Karl Barth and personalist philosophy: a critical appropriation Mark J. McInroy Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge ...
This article argues for a reassessment of contemporary academic opinion concerning Origen’s “doctrine of the spiritual senses." By calling attention to portions of Origen’s early works, McInroy shows that Origen’s articulation of the... more
This chapter argues that the spiritual senses play an integral role in the theologies of the two leading Catholic theologians of the twentieth century, Karl Rahner and Hans Urs von Balthasar. Although Rahner appears to neglect the... more
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... more
The fourth edition of The Christian Theological Tradition provides students with essential theological knowledge of key persons and events of the Bible and the Christian faith, and of Christianity’s multifaceted encounter with Western... more
John Henry Newman spearheaded one of the first modern retrievals of the Christian doctrine of the Christian doctrine of deification. This article argues that, precisely because of the early date of Newman’s rehabilitation, his treatment... more
Recent scholarship on Martin Luther has sharply criticized the Finnish interpretation of Luther, which claims to have unearthed a notion of theosis, or deification, akin to that found within Eastern Orthodoxy. This article advances a... more
This study argues that Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-88) advances a distinctive defense of beauty as a transcendental property of being that both draws from and breaks with key influences on his thought such as Bonaventure. Scholarly... more
This article develops an original account of the rise of the modern misperception of deification as an exclusively Eastern Christian doctrine antithetical to Western theology. The study argues that the origins of the misconstruction lie... more