Theo-Poetics by Anne M. Carpenter - 9780268023782

Theo-PoeticsHans Urs Von Balthasar and the Risk of Art and Being\nAuthor(s): Anne M. Carpenter\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press, United States\nImprint: University of Notre Dame Press\nISBN-13: 9780268023782, 978-0268023782\nSynopsis\nSwiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar [tel] originated much of twentieth- and twenty-first-century theology's renewed interest in aesthetics. Von Balthasar's theology is both poetic and philosophical, and while this combination is often recognized, it calls for an explanation. In Theo-Poetics: Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Risk of Art and Being, Anne M. Carpenter explores von Balthasar's use of poetry and poetic language, and she offers a detailed analysis of his philosophical presuppositions. Carpenter argues that von Balthasar uses poets and poetic language to make theological arguments because this poetic way of speaking expresses metaphysical truth without reducing one to the other. \n\n Carpenter begins with von Balt.