Balthasar's Trilogy by Revd Stephen Wigley
This book is an undergraduate introduction to one of the most important works of 20th-century Catholic theology.-
T.S.Eliot
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Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
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Achebe's Things Fall Apart
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William Blake's Poetry
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Bram Stoker's Dracula
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Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit'
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Heidegger's 'Being and Time'
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Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'
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Levinas' 'Totality and Infinity'
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Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
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Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason'
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Conrad's Heart of Darkness
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George Orwell
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Hume's 'Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding'
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Sartre's 'Being and Nothingness'
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Hegel's 'Philosophy of Right'
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Schopenhauer's 'The World as Will and Representation'
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Zizek's The Sublime Object of Ideology
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Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
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Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
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Deleuze and Guattari's 'A Thousand Plateaus'
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Bronte's Jane Eyre
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Hobbes's 'Leviathan'
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Mill's 'Utilitarianism'
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W.B.Yeats
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Shelley's Frankenstein
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Berkeley's 'Principles of Human Knowledge'
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Badiou's 'Being and Event'
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Finnegans Wake
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W.H.Auden
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Rawls's 'A Theory of Justice'
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Plato's Republic
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Machiavelli's 'The Prince'
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Deleuze and Guattari's 'Anti-Oedipus'
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Wittgenstein's 'Philosophical Investigations'
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Aristotle's 'Nicomachean Ethics'
Here we have an excellent introduction to one of the most significant intellectual achievements of the twentieth century, namely Hans-Urs von Balthasar's trilogy on the transcendentals of being: beauty, goodness and truthIn that massive work the Swiss Catholic theologian unfolded the themes of God's glory and its appearance, God's dramatic history with the world and human participation in it, God's cosmic design and the ways of its revelation and human discovery. Now at three interlocking levels -- that of the present book itself, that of its subject's writings, and that of the range of philosophers, theologians and artists whom von Balthasar attended to -- readers will find themselves drawn into engagement with the true, the good, and the beautiful. -- Geoffrey Wainwright, Robert Earl Cushman Professor of Christian Theology, Duke Divinity School, Durham, USA.
Readers struggling with the daunting task of getting to grips with Hans Urs von Balthasar's vast and sometimes rather amorphous oeuvre will welcome this wonderfully brief and clear map of his Trilogy. Stephen Wigley sets Balthasar's magnum opus in context, offers an analysis of the key influences on it, and even guides us through the growing thicket of secondary literature surrounding it, but above all he lays out a concise, sympathetic summary of the Trilogy, something which is to be found nowhere else in a single volume. -- Karen Kilby, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Nottingham, UK.
Readers struggling with the daunting task of getting to grips with Hans Urs von Balthasar's vast and sometimes rather amorphous oeuvre will welcome this wonderfully brief and clear map of his Trilogy. Stephen Wigley sets Balthasar's magnum opus in context, offers an analysis of the key influences on it, and even guides us through the growing thicket of secondary literature surrounding it, but above all he lays out a concise, sympathetic summary of the Trilogy, something which is to be found nowhere else in a single volume. -- Karen Kilby, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Nottingham, UK.
Revd. Dr. Stephen Wigley is Chair of the Wales Synod of the Methodist Church, a visiting lecturer and Trustee of St. Michael's College, Llandaff, and author of Karl Barth and Hans Urs von Balthasar: a Critical Engagement (2007).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780567034175 |
| ISBN 10 | 0567034178 |
| Title | Balthasar's Trilogy |
| Author | Revd Stephen Wigley |
| Series | Reader's Guides |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Tandt Clark |
| Year published | 2010-09-23 |
| Number of pages | 184 |
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