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Studies of Hans Urs von Balthasar By Year [Work in Progress]

2021

  • Chu, Zane E. "Christ's representation of sinners in Hans Urs von Balthasar and Thomas Aquinas." Scottish Journal of Theology 74, no. 3 (2021): 252-261.
  • Couchman, Adam. "“Not My Will But Yours be Done”: The Use of the Mercy Seat in Theodramatic Perspective." Studia Liturgica 51, no. 2 (2021): 217-229.
  • Daniels, Paul Raimond. "[Translation] Balthasar, Hans Urs von,‘The Art of the Fugue: Paralipomena to a Performance'." Communio: International Catholic Review 48, no. 2 (2021): 420-424.
  • Garton, Alexander. "Divine Freedom and Revelation in Christ: The Doctrine of Eternity with Special Reference to the Theology of Karl Barth." PhD diss., University of Cambridge, 2021.
  • Havenga, Marthinus J. "Performing Christ: South African protest theatre and the theological dramatic theory of Hans Urs von Balthasar." Studies in Theology, Society and Culture (2021).
  • Peruzzotti, Francesca. "The test of time. The phenomenology of events of Jean-Luc Marion and the eschatological theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar." Transversalites 2 (2021): 105-115.

2020

  • Arnold, Alec. "Perceiving Revelation Here and Now: Insights from Walter Ong and Hans Urs von Balthasar." Modern Theology 36, no. 2 (2020): 281-297.
  • Clarke, Kevin M. "The Assent of Faith and the Unity of the Form in Biblical Exegesis: Balthasar’s Response to Rahner." The Heythrop Journal 61, no. 6 (2020): 989-997.
  • Havenga, Marthinus J. "Christ as performance: On Hans Urs von Balthasar's dramatic Christology from below." Stellenbosch Theological Journal 6, no. 4 (2020): 139-158.
  • Holzer, Vincent. "Trinity and analogy in Hans Urs von Balthasar. The Trinitarian status of love as “transcendental pure and simple”." Les Etudes philosophiques 2 (2020): 113-136.
  • Illanes, José-Luis. "Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Christian’s States of Life. Analysis of his Writings in Light of the Creation of the Figure of the Secular Institutes." Scripta Theologica 52, no. 1 (2020): 9-38.
  • Jae-Sung, R. Y. U. "The Integrity of Holy Knowing and Holy Living in Wesley’s and Balthasar’s Epistemology." 장신논단 52, no. 4 (2020): 127-158.
  • Kerr, Fergus. "Adrienne von Speyr and Hans urs von Balthasar." New Blackfriars 79, no. 923 (1998): 26-32.
  • LaCouter, Travis. "A constructive theology of prayer, drawing on the work of Hans Urs von Balthasar." PhD diss., University of Oxford, 2020.
  • LaCouter, Travis. "The Kernel of Politics' According to von Balthasar." Louvain Studies 44, no. 1 (2021): 82-96.
  • Franks, Angela. "Deleuze, Balthasar, and John Paul II on the Aesthetics of the Body." Theological Studies 81, no. 3 (2020): 649-670.
  • Lawson, Stephen D. "The Apostasy of the Church and the Cross of Christ: Hans Urs von Balthasar on the Mystery of the Church as Casta Meretrix." Modern Theology 36, no. 2 (2020): 259-280.
  • Lett, Jacob. "Emplaced Theosis: Hans Urs Von Balthasar's Incarnational Metaphysics and the" Place" of God." Wesleyan Theological Journal 55, no. 2 (2020): 7-25.
  • Müller, Wolfgang. "Levering, Matthew: The Achievement of Hans Urs von Balthasar. An Introduction to His Trilogy." Theologische Revue 116 (2020).
  • Tengapurackal, Navin Jacob. "The theo drama of salvation: a study in the soteriologies of Hans Urs von Balthasar and Raymund Schwager." (2020).
  • Shaffett, John E. "Hans Urs von Balthasar on the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises: An Anthology." The Catholic Library World 90, no. 3 (2020): 196-196.
  • Walatka, Todd. "Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Meaning of Christmas." Theological Studies 81, no. 4 (2020): 929-950.
  • Wołowski, Lech. "The problem of independence of Józef Tischner’s dramatic reflection from Hans Urs von Balthasar’s theodramatic thought." Analecta Cracoviensia 51 (2020): 141-160.

2019

  • Alpers, Christiane. "The End of Kenotic Suffering: The Centrality of God's Love of Sinners in Schillebeeckx's and Balthasar's Soteriologies." Studies in spirituality 29 (2019): 333-353.
  • Batlogg, Andreas R., and Thomas F. O’Meara. "Church Father of the Twentieth Century." Philosophy and Theology (2019).
  • Boas, Alex Villas. "The understanding of the spiritual exercises in Karl Rahner and Hans Urs von Balthasar." Ignaziana-rivista di ricerca teologica 28, no. 2019 (2019): 190-216.
  • Cha, Boram. "Suffering, Tragedy, Vulnerability: A Triangulated Examination of the Divine – Human Relationship in Hans Urs von Balthasar, Rowan Williams, and Sarah Coakley." PhD diss., Durham University, 2019.
  • Deane-Drummond, Celia. "8 Deep incarnation between Balthasar and Bulgakov." Envisioning the Cosmic Body of Christ: Embodiment, Plurality and Incarnation (2019).
  • Havenga, Marthinus Johannes. "Performing Christ: a South African protest play and the theological dramatic theory of Hans Urs von Balthasar." PhD diss., Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University, 2019.
  • Healy Jr, Nicholas J. "Hans Urs von Balthasar." Proceedings of the Catholic Theological Society of America 74 (2019): 146-147.
  • IEVINS, JOHN. "Love, Glory and Beauty in Jonathan Edwards and Hans Urs von Balthasar." PhD diss., Durham University, 2019.
  • DeGurse, James. "Beyond Beatific Knowledge: Hans Urs von Balthasar and Thomas Weinandy on Christ’s Vision of the Father." (2019).
  • Jankūnas, Gediminas. "Hans Urs von Balthasar: on the Cross as a Trinitarian event." SOTER: religijos mokslo žurnalas 99, no. 71 (2019): 7-17.
  • Lett, Jacob. "Divine Roominess: Spatial and Music Analogies in Hans Urs von Balthasar and Robert Jenson." Pro Ecclesia 28, no. 3 (2019): 267-277.
  • Long, D. Stephen. "Barth and Balthasar." The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Karl Barth: Barth in Dialogue (2019): 619-631.
  • Martin, Jennifer Newsome. "The Consubstantial Otherness of God: Divine Simplicity and the Trinity in Hans Urs von Balthasar." Modern Theology 35, no. 3 (2019): 542-557.
  • Masiri, Ibiko Morris Minisare. "Kenosis as Liberation: The Kenotic Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar as a Critical Foundation for African Liberation Theology." PhD diss., [Sl: sn], 2019.
  • Muers, Rachel. "The Mute Cannot Keep Silent: Barth, von Balthasar, and Irigaray, on the Construction of Women's Silence." In Challenging Women's Orthodoxies in the Context of Faith, pp. 109-120. Routledge, 2019.
  • O’Callaghan, Paul. "Can God be Enriched? On the Metaphysical Underpinnings of Von Balthasar’s Theology." Irish Theological Quarterly 84, no. 2 (2019): 175-194.
  • O’Regan, Cyril. "Balthasar and the Eclipse of Nietzsche." Modern theology 35, no. 1 (2019): 103-121.
  • REID, ANGUS, and INGVAR DAVID. "WONDERFULLY AND FEARFULLY MADE: Hans Urs von Balthasar on the Metaphysical Significance of the Wonder of a Child and the Fruitfulness of Human Sexual Difference." PhD diss., Durham University, 2019.

2018

  • Altenburger, Michael W. "Hans Urs von Balthasar: Apocalyptic, Politics, and the Church." PhD diss., University Of Notre Dame, 2018.
  • Brotherton, Joshua R. "Trinitarian Suffering and Divine Receptivity after Balthasar." The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review 82, no. 2 (2018): 189-234.
  • Brown, David. "Glory and beauty in the world and in God: a critique of Hans Urs von Balthasar." International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church 18, no. 2-3 (2018): 173-186.
  • Brown, Derek. "Kneeling in the Street: Recontextualizing Balthasar." New Blackfriars 99, no. 1084 (2018): 788-806.
  • Brotherton, Joshua R. "Christ's Descent into Hell: John Paul II, Joseph Ratzinger, and Hans Urs von Balthasar on the Theology of Holy Saturday by Lyra Pitstick." Nova et vetera 16, no. 2 (2018): 665-669.
  • Bychkov, Oleg. "Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Critical Appropriation of Russian Religious Thought." Cithara 58, no. 1 (2018): 67-83.
  • Carpenter, Anne M. "A Theological Aesthetic of Memory: Blondel, Newman, and Balthasar." Nova et vetera 16, no. 2 (2018): 439-463.
  • Ciraulo, Jonathan Martin. "Hans Urs von Balthasar’s indifference to divinization." In Mystical Doctrines of Deification, pp. 165-185. Routledge, 2018.
  • DuBroy, Matthew. "A Trinitarian Anthropology: Adrienne von Speyr and Hans Urs von Balthasar in Dialogue with Thomas Aquinas by Michele M. Schumacher." Nova et Vetera 16, no. 3 (2018): 1009-1015.
  • Jankulak, Francis Joseph. "Love in the Constitutive Meaning of Human Existence: Bernard Lonergan and Hans Urs von Balthasar in Dialogue." PhD diss., 2019.
  • Kalem, Hrvoje. "On Some Aspects of Understanding Faith in Hans Urs von Balthasar and Paul Tillich." Diacovensia: teološki prilozi 26, no. 3 (2018): 383-404.
  • Kilby, Karen E. "Julian of Norwich, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and the status of suffering in Christian theology." New blackfriars. 99, no. 1081 (2018): 298-311.
  • Krause, Nicholas. "Von Balthasar and the Option for the Poor: Theodramatics in the Light of Liberation Theology." Anglican Theological Review 100, no. 4 (2018): 857-858.
  • Laracy, John. "Divine Love as Event: A Study in the Trinitarian Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar." PhD diss., Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family, 2018.
  • Lauber, David. "Jason A. Fout, Fully Alive: The Glory of God and the Human Creature in Karl Barth, Hans Urs von Balthasar and Theological Exegesis of Scripture (Bloomsbury, 2015), pp. 213.£ 69.99." Scottish Journal of Theology 71, no. 1 (2018): 110-112.
  • Martin, Jennifer Newsome. "Love Itself Is Understanding: Hans Urs von Balthasar's Theology of the Saints." Anglican Theological Review 100, no. 2 (2018): 441-443.
  • Troxell, Kellen. "The Intimacy of the Cross: Kenotic Love in Hans Urs von Balthasar and Sufjan Stevens." Obsculta 11, no. 1 (2018): 39-50.
  • Vulić, Boris. "A sketch of the Christological-Trinitarian hermeneutics of hell and the duty of hope for the salvation of all people in the thought of HU von Balthasar." Diacovensia: teološki prilozi 26, no. 4 (2018): 569-581.
  • Yenson, Mark. "Hans Urs von Balthasar." Proceedings of the Catholic Theological Society of America 73 (2018).
  • Verweyen, Hansjùrgen, and Thomas Alferi. "Hans Urs von Balthasar's Contribution to Fundamental Theology." Communio 3 (2018): 167-180.

2017

  • Arblaster, Wes J. "A Semblance of Things Unseen: Damaged Experience and Aesthetic Recovery in Theodor Adorno and Hans Urs Von Balthasar." PhD diss., University of Dayton, 2017.
  • Baker, Anthony D. "Fully Alive: The Glory of God and the Human Creature in Karl Barth, Hans Urs von Balthasar and Theological Exegesis of Scripture." Anglican Theological Review 99, no. 2 (2017): 387.
  • Brown, Joshua R. "Strange Companions? Hans Urs von Balthasar as Resource for Comparative Theology." Theological Studies 78, no. 2 (2017): 369-388.
  • Carpenter, Anne M. "Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Critical Appropriation of Russian Religious Thought by Jennifer Newsome Martin." Nova et vetera 15, no. 2 (2017): 675-679.
  • Friesen, Layton Boyd. "Unity in Difference: Hans Urs Von Balthasar's Christology as Resource for a Mennonite Theology of Peace." PhD diss., 2017.
  • Garrett, Stephen M. "The Hope of Friendship: Learning from the Ecumenical Conversations between Barth and Balthasar."
  • Giandomenico ThD, Craig W. "A Disease of Being: The Ontological Status of Sin in the Theology of Hans Urs Von Balthasar." (2017).
  • Klein, Carmel. "The Strange Witness of the Saints: Hans Urs von Balthasar's Embodied Theology of Mission." PhD diss., University of Dayton, 2017.
  • Košćak, Silvio. "The Kenosis of the Cross–the Form and Content of the Testimony of Christ’s Contemporary Witnesses. Reflections in accordance with Hans Urs von Balthasar." Diacovensia: teološki prilozi 25, no. 4 (2017): 617-637.
  • Lattanzio, Marcelo. "A New Profile of Hans Urs von Balthasar." The Incarnate Word 4, no. 1 (2017): 45-84.
  • Shin-Young, P. A. R. K. "Seeing the Self as Beautiful: Hans Urs von Balthasar on Beauty and the Divine Exegesis of the Self." 장신논단 49, no. 3 (2017): 215-235.
  • Lenotre, Katherine. "Hans Urs von Balthasar's Theological Aesthetics Applied to the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor." PhD diss., The Catholic University of America, 2017.
  • MacDonald, Michel Gerard. "Saving Beauty: Renewing Moral Theology in Light of Hans Urs von Balthasar's Theological Aesthetics." PhD diss., Université Saint-Paul/Saint Paul University, 2017.
  • Taylor, Kevin. "A Generous Symphony: Hans Urs von Balthasar's Literary Revelations." Anglican Theological Review 99, no. 4 (2017): 823-824.

2016

  • Ballan, Joseph. "Hans Urs von Balthasar: Persuasive Forms or Offensive Signs? Kierkegaard and the Problems of Theological Aesthetics." In Volume 10, Tome III: Kierkegaard's Influence on Theology, pp. 17-38. Routledge, 2016.
  • Coyle, Justin Shaun. "The Very Idea of Subtler Language: The Poetics of Gerard Manley Hopkins in Charles Taylor and Hans Urs von Balthasar." The Heythrop Journal 57, no. 5 (2016): 820-833.
  • Brown, Joshua R. "Christ's “Symphonic” Obedience: Exploring Hans urs von Balthasar's Archetypal Experience through han Confucianism." Pro Ecclesia 25, no. 4 (2016): 439-458.
  • Brown, Joshua R. "Incorporating Xiao: Exploring Christ's Filial Obedience Through Hans Urs von Balthasar and Early Confucian Philosophy." PhD diss., University of Dayton, 2016.
  • De Maeseneer, Yves. "Angels as Mirrors of the Human: The Anthropologies of Rilke and Bonaventure through the Lenses of Hans Urs von Balthasar." Acta Universitatis Carolinae Theologica 6, no. 1 (2016): 105-117.
  • Fischer, Mark F. "The Soteriologies of Karl Rahner and Hans Urs Von Balthasar." Philosophy and Theology 28, no. 2 (2016): 513-525.
  • Fusco, Mark. "Consciousness in the Wilderness of Mirrors: Trinitarian Kenosis and Created Difference in the Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar." PhD diss., 2016.
  • Hikota, Riyako. "And still we wait: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s theology of Holy Saturday and Its Implications for Christian suffering and discipleship." (2016).
  • Jastrzębski, Andrzej. "Inspirations of the theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar." Filozofia Chrześcijańska 13 (2016): 121-134.
  • King, Jonathan S. "Theology under another form: Hans Urs von Balthasar's formation and writings as a Germanist." PhD diss., Saint Louis University, 2016.
  • Knauss, Stefanie. "Contradictions or Openings?: Musings on Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Theology of Sexual Difference." In Reading the Body of Christ, pp. 131-145. Ferdinand Schöningh, 2016.
  • McGinn, Bernard. "Mysticism in Thomas Aquinas and Hans Urs von Balthasar." Vinayasādhana 7, no. 2 (2016): 16-32.
  • McInerny, Brendan McInerny. "A blessed wilderness: Trinitarian distance, dialogue, and deification in the theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar." PhD diss., Fordham University, 2016.
  • Murphy, Francesca Aran. "De Lubac, Ratzinger and von Balthasar: A Communal Adventure in Ecclesiology." In Ecumenism Today, pp. 53-88. Routledge, 2016.
  • Orton, Virginia. "The Trinitarian theology of Jürgen Moltmann and Hans Urs von Balthasar: A Discussion and Comparison." (2016).
  • Schlesinger, Eugene R. "The Church’s Eucharistic Poverty in the Theologies of Jon Sobrino and Hans Urs von Balthasar." Theological Studies 77, no. 3 (2016): 627-651.
  • Tedcastle, Helen Louise. "Thomas Merton as a ‘wise theologian’: an engagement with Hans Urs von Balthasar and David F. Ford." PhD diss., University of Birmingham, 2016.