The Eschatology of Hans Urs Von Balthasar: Being as Communion

by Nicholas J. Healy

The unifying centre of Nicholas J. Healy's book is an analysis, in dialogue with the metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas, of Balthasar's understanding of the analogy of being. This discussion of analogy is framed by an interpretation of Balthasar's trinitarian eschatology. Healy shows that the ultimate form of the end, and thus the measure of all that is meant by eschatology, is given in Christ's eucharistic and pneumatic gift of himself - a gift that simultaneously...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199278369
• ISBN13: 9780199278367
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"