Balthasar on the Spiritual Senses: Perceiving Splendour

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Balthasar on the Spiritual Senses: Perceiving
Splendour
Mark McInroy
Print publication date: 2014
Print ISBN-13: 9780199689002
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: August 2014
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199689002.001.0001
Title Pages
(p.ii) Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology
(p.iii) Balthasar on the Spiritual Senses
General Editors: Sarah Coakley (Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity, University of
Cambridge) and Richard Cross (John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy,
University of Notre Dame)
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Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology
Balthasar on the Spiritual Senses: Perceiving
Splendour
Mark McInroy
Print publication date: 2014
Print ISBN-13: 9780199689002
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: August 2014
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199689002.001.0001
(p.i) Changing Paradigms in Historical and
Systematic Theology
General Editors
Sarah Coakley Richard Cross
This series sets out to reconsider the modern distinction between ‘historical’ and
‘systematic’ theology. The scholarship represented in the series is marked by
attention to the way in which historiographic and theological presumptions
(‘paradigms’) necessarily inform the work of historians of Christian thought, and
thus affect their application to contemporary concerns. At certain key junctures
such paradigms are recast, causing a reconsideration of the methods,
hermeneutics, geographical boundaries, or chronological caesuras which have
previously guided the theological narrative. The beginning of the twenty-first
century marks a period of such notable reassessment of the Christian doctrinal
heritage, and involves a questioning of the paradigms that have sustained the
classic ‘history-of-ideas’ textbook accounts of the modern era. Each of the
volumes in this series brings such contemporary methodological and
historiographical concerns to conscious consideration. Each tackles a period or
key figure whose significance is ripe for reconsideration, and each analyses the
implicit historiography that has sustained existing scholarship on the topic. A
variety of fresh methodological concerns are considered, without reducing the
theological to other categories. The emphasis is on an awareness of the history
of ‘reception’: the possibilities for contemporary theology are bound up with a
careful rewriting of the historical narrative. In this sense, ‘historical’ and
‘systematic’ theology are necessarily conjoined, yet also closely connected to a
discerning interdisciplinary engagement.
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Dedication
Balthasar on the Spiritual Senses: Perceiving
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Mark McInroy
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Dedication
(p.v) To my mother and father (p.vi)
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Acknowledgements
Balthasar on the Spiritual Senses: Perceiving
Splendour
Mark McInroy
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(p.vii) Acknowledgements
This study would not have been possible without scholarly guidance from a
number of different quarters. In its initial form as a doctoral dissertation at
Harvard Divinity School, it was shaped by an exceptionally generous and
insightful committee of examiners. The late Ronald Thiemann was a terrifically
stimulating conversation partner as my work developed; Kevin Madigan could
not have been more supportive of my scholarly endeavours throughout my
doctoral study; Francis Schüssler Fiorenza provided an invaluable sense of the
thought-world out of which Balthasar’s theology arises. Most of all, Sarah
Coakley gave her unflagging support throughout the writing of the doctoral
thesis and its revision thereafter. I have benefitted enormously from her incisive
commentary, her close attention to texts, and her keen eye for the relevance of
this topic for the contemporary theological climate. I owe a great deal to other
Harvard faculty members, especially François Bovon, Francis X. Clooney, Karen
King, David Lamberth, and Stephanie Paulsell.
My friends and colleagues at Harvard helpfully responded to numerous chapter
drafts throughout the years. Special thanks go to Mary Anderson, Faye Bodley-
Dangelo, Tim Dalrymple, Sutopa Dasgupta, Philip Francis, George Gonzalez,
Brett Grainger, Paul Dafydd Jones, Tamsin Jones, Piotr Malysz, Cameron
Partridge, Mark Scott, John Senior, Katherine Shaner, Rachel Smith, Charles
Stang, Robert St Hilaire, Bryan Wagoner, and Mara Willard.
A Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship from Harvard University funded a
year of research at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, where Hansjürgen
Verweyen generously gave my project his time and penetrating insight. Helmut
Hoping not only kindly agreed to serve as my Doktorvater for the 2007–2008
academic year, he also invited me into his circle of doctoral students and allowed
me to present a chapter of my study in his doctoral colloquium. I also benefitted
from a number of stimulating conversations about Balthasar’s thought within
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Acknowledgements
German-speaking academic circles. My gratitude extends to Martin Bieler,
Antonio Cimino, Benjamin Dahlke, Markus Enders, Gisbert Greshake, Julia Knop,
Aaron Looney, Thomas Möllenbeck, (p.viii) Robin Stockitt, Klaus von Stosch,
Magnus Striet, Jan-Heiner Tück, and Andrej Wierzinski.
Cornelia Capol at the Balthasar Archiv and Hans-Anton Drewes at the Barth
Archiv, both in Basel, Switzerland, made archive work immensely enjoyable.
Special thanks also to Lois Rankin for her translation of Agnell Rickenmann’s
article from the original Italian.
More recently, I had the good fortune of discussing this project at the University
of Cambridge while on a postdoctoral fellowship there. Especially helpful were
discussions with David Ford, Raphael Cadenhead, Ashley Cocksworth, Samuel
Kimbriel, Robbie Leigh, Jon Mackenzie, Richard McLauchlan, Elizabeth Powell,
Darren Sarisky, Simon Ravenscroft, Giles Waller, Nicki Wilkes, and Simeon Zahl.
My colleagues at the University of St Thomas have been my latest set of valued
conversation partners, and I have particularly benefitted from discussions with
Cara Anthony, John Boyle, Thomas Bushlack, Mark DelCogliano, Massimo
Faggioli, Paul Gavrilyuk, Michael Hollerich, Sherry Jordon, Billy Junker, Anne
King, Robert Koerpel, Amy Levad, John Martens, Steve McMichael, Terence
Nichols, Philip Rolnick, Barbara Sain, Kimberly Vrudny, and Paul Wojda.
Richard Cross, one of the series editors, offered his exceptionally insightful
commentary and generous support of this project. At Oxford University Press,
Tom Perridge, Alex Johnson, Karen Raith, Lizzy Robottom, and others have
shown the very height of professionalism.
Last, I would like to take this opportunity to thank my family. To my mother, Jan,
my debts and gratitude are immeasurable. In particular regard to this project,
she has not only generously offered her professional editorial expertise in
reviewing multiple chapter drafts, she has also inspired in me a delight in the
English language that, I hope, manifests itself on the pages of this study. My
father, John, stands behind this work in countless ways. My brother, Adam, has
simply been an inspiration to me throughout my life. And to Suzanne I am so
very grateful for her unfailing love and support. She, more than anyone else, has
been with me through every step of this project. Without her it never would have
been completed.
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Abbreviations
Balthasar on the Spiritual Senses: Perceiving
Splendour
Mark McInroy
Print publication date: 2014
Print ISBN-13: 9780199689002
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: August 2014
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199689002.001.0001
(p.xi) Abbreviations
The Works of Hans Urs von Balthasar
CL
Cosmic Liturgy: The Universe According to Maximus the Confessor
Ep.
Epilogue
ET
I-IV Explorations in Theology, vols I–IV
GL
I-VII The Glory of the Lord: A Theological Aesthetics, vols I–VII
KB
The Theology of Karl Barth
LA
Love Alone is Credible
OSF
Origen: Spirit and Fire
TD
I-V Theo-Drama: Theological Dramatic Theory, vols I–V
TL
I-III Theo-Logic: Theological Logical Theory, vols I–III
Other Works
ANF
Ante-Nicene Fathers
Brev.
Bonaventure, Breviloquium
CCSL
D. Eligius Dekkers, OSB, and Johannes Fraipont, eds. Corpus
Christianorum Series Latina
CD
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Abbreviations
Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics
Conf.
Augustine, Confessions
De Civ. Dei
Augustine, City of God
De Gen.
Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram
De Prin.
Origen, De Principiis
De Ver.
Thomas Aquinas, De Veritate
DS
Denzinger-Schönmetzer, eds., Enchiridion Symbolorum
Enarr. in Ps.
Augustine, Expositions of the Psalms (p.xii)
GCS
W. A. Baehrens, ed., Origenes Werke. Die Griechischen Christlichen
Schriftsteller
GNO H.
Langerbeck, ed., Gregorii Nysseni Opera
Hom.
Pseudo-Macarius, The Fifty Spiritual Homilies
In Cant.
Origen, In Canticum Canticorum
Itin.
Bonaventure, Itinerarium Mentis in Deum
PG
Jacques-P. Migne, ed., Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Graeca
PL
Jacques-P. Migne, ed., Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Latina
SCG
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles
SD
Paul Claudel, ‘La Sensation du Divin’
Sent.
Bonaventure, Sentences Commentary
SRE
Romano Guardini, Die Sinne und die religiöse Erkenntnis
ST
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae
SW
Gustav Siewerth, Die Sinne und das Wort
WB
Gustav Siewerth, Wort und Bild
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