Cosmic liturgy : the universe according to Maximus the Confessor / Hans Urs von Balthasar ; translated by Brian E. Daley, S.J.
2003, 1st edition. San Francisco, CA : Ignatius Press. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #473695
Physical description: 420 pages. Series: Twentieth century religious thought. Contents: Intro -- Translator's Foreword -- Foreword to the Second Edition (1961) -- INTRODUCTION -- The Free Mind -- East and West -- The Synthesis -- Chronology of His Life and Work -- GOD -- The Dark Radiance -- Divine Unknowing -- A Thrice-Praised Unity -- Transformations of the One -- IDEAS -- Ideas in God: A Critique of Pseudo-Dionysius -- Ideas and the World: A Critique of Origenism -- THE SYNTHESES OP THE COSMOS -- Being and Movement -- Generality and Particularity -- Subject and Object -- Intellect and Matter -- HUMANITY AND SIN -- History and the Parousia -- Paradise and Freedom
Passivity and Decay -- Existence as Contradiction -- The Dialectics of Passion -- The Sexual Synthesis -- CHRIST THE SYNTHESIS -- Setting the Question -- The Terminology -- The Synthetic Person -- Healing as Preservation -- The Syntheses of Redemption -- THE SPIRITUAL SYNTHESES -- Christian Realization -- The Synthesis of the Three Faculties -- The Synthesis of the Three Laws -- The Synthesis of Three Acts of Worship -- The Synthesis of the Three Acts -- Now and Eternity -- Appendix: The Problem of the Scholia to Pseudo-Dionysius -- Bibliography -- Notes. Subjects: Maximus Confessor, Saint approximately 580-662. Theology.
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