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Theological Aesthetics or Aesthetic Theology? Some Reflections on the Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Roland Chia
Roland Chia
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Fairfield Methodist Church 1 Tanjong Pagar Road Singapore 0208
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The theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar can be described as an attempt to provide an exposition of a verse in one of Gerard Manley Hopkin's most memorable poems in which the Jesuit poet declared that ‘The world is charged with the grandeur of God’. This verse, and indeed the poem as a whole, affirms the Christian's cosmic experience of God. Just as the mythological view of the relationship between god and the world is that the world is a sacred theophany, the world is, for the Christian, the theophany of God's glory and beauty.

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Research Article
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Scottish Journal of Theology , Volume 49 , Issue 1 , February 1996 , pp. 75 - 95
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Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1996

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