A Trinitarian Anthropology: Adrienne von Speyr and Hans Urs von Balthasar in Dialogue with Thomas Aquinas Schumacher Michele

In this magisterial work, Michele M. 1988) and those of the church's common doctor, St. Schumacher seeks to promote dialogue between disciples of the Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar (d.

1274) on a critical theological question. Thomas Aquinas (d. How are analogies and metaphors from the philosophy and theology of the person (anthropology) rightly used to address the mystery of the Trinity?

She does so by considering the specific setting of Balthasar's theology: the inseparability of his work from that of the Swiss physician and mystic Adrienne von Speyr (d. 1967). Most Balthasar scholars have not addressed in any significant manner the figure and influence of von Speyr, perhaps owing to the unsystematic nature of her more than 60 volumes (approximately 15,000 pages) of mystical theology. In addition, there is the even more lengthy work of Balthasar himself.

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