JESUS AS MAN, THE SUPREME “EXPRESSION” OF GOD IN HANS URS VON BALTHASAR’S THEOLOGY Cover Image

OMUL IISUS, „EXPRESIA” SUPREMĂ A LUI DUMNEZEU, ÎN TEOLOGIA LUI HANS URS VON BALTHASAR
JESUS AS MAN, THE SUPREME “EXPRESSION” OF GOD IN HANS URS VON BALTHASAR’S THEOLOGY

Author(s): Robert-Iulian Păun
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion
Published by: Facultatea de Teologie Ortodoxă Alba Iulia
Keywords: figure;young;image;expression;harmony;symphony;praise;form;synthesis;Christology;person;universal;concrete;beautiful;truth;ideas;uniqueness;standard;action;mission;

Summary/Abstract: The concept of figure (Gestalt), that Hans Urs von Balthasar develops with such greatness in his theology, is correlated with the whole vision about the theological aesthetics of the great Swiss theologian. Theological Aesthetics, methodologically speaking, really brought a very important contribution to the theology in general, as it imposes a standard that must always apply, namely: the simultaneous use of the concept with its imposed form. Therefore, insisting in this article on the concept of figure, we wanted to highlight the form reflected in each of us and even more in the person of the young Christian, tired of living in a non-harmonized conceptual world. Jesus Christ is the figure by excellence and we drink of it as we understand it.

  • Issue Year: XXI/2016
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 247-262
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Romanian