What is it about?
Is the world the site of diaphany where one encounters the ‘transparency of God in the universe’ in a Teilhardian fashion, or should one give credit to von Balthasar’s insistence that the cosmos can never serve as the final meaning of revelation since divine revelation is best conceived as God’s unsurpassable work of art, the epiphany of divine glory over against the cosmos and human history? This paper seeks to explore the contours of two different conceptions of the natural world as God’s creation and as the site of revelation.
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This article explores the basic similarities of Teilhard de Chardin's and von Balthasar's standpoints which are often overlooked.
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It has been a great pleasure to explore the thought of these two giants of twentieth century theology.
Dr Beata Toth
Sapientia College of Theology, Budapest
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This page is a summary of: Diaphany of the Divine Milieu or the Epiphany of Divine Glory? - The Revelation of the Natural World in Teilhard de Chardin and Hans Urs von Balthasar, New Blackfriars, June 2014, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-2005.2011.01442.x.
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