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Regarding Ch.1, von Balthasar's premise is lucid and defined. Regarding Ch.2, after some reflection on the substance and context of the verses von Balthasar proffers, I think he is grasping at straws. Few of the verses he addresses are as controversial or convincing as they may appear when taken in complete context. Ch.3 contains an imaginative description of hell and some stick-in-the-mud interpretations of Origen
— Jun 18, 2024 11:54PM
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Matt Hoover
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I don't mind that his sentences are eight lines long or that he addresses four different concepts in a single sentence, most of which often do not have any relationship to each other. What I do mind is that his paragraphs are four pages long and are not at all organized so as to include only one topic per paragraph. Damn modernists.
— Jun 13, 2024 06:15PM
I heard a scholar speak on von Balthasar and say that he has interesting and sophisticated ideas (true) but that she would not want her students to emulate his style of theology, because he very often speaks authoritatively on controversial topics without feeling the need to justify his interpretation. This shines very clearly through in his writing here, because his writing is dense and he does not spend a lot of time on ideas, evidently because he does not feel that he needs to take the time to prove them deftly.