Review:
"In this exceptional book, Professor Cyril O'Regan unites extraordinary erudition on gnosticism and apocalyptic with contemporary constructive thinking on von Balthasar and Hegel. There is no existing work like this. It will be impossible to read von Balthasar in the future without this profound study on his relation to Hegel and on the book of Revelation. This amazing book is indispensable for understanding four major moments in the Western tradition: apocalyptic, Valentinian gnosticims, Hegel, and von Balthasar." --David Tracy, Greely Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago
"O'Regan's brilliant study is by far the most in-depth and sophisticated exploration of the complex role that Hegel plays in Balthasar's thought yet to appear." --David C. Schindler, junior associate professor of philosophy, Villanova University
"O'Regan's telling of this theological story is nothing less than a tour d force!" --John Thiel, professor of religious studies, Fairfield University
In this exceptional book, Professor Cyril O'Regan unites extraordinary erudition on gnosticism and apocalyptic with contemporary constructive thinking on von Balthasar and Hegel. There is no existing work like this. It will be impossible to read von Balthasar in the future without this profound study on his relation to Hegel and on the book of Revelation. This amazing book is indispensable for understanding four major moments in the Western tradition: apocalyptic, Valentinian gnosticims, Hegel, and von Balthasar. David Tracy, Greely Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago"
O Regan s brilliant study is by far the most in-depth and sophisticated exploration of the complex role that Hegel plays in Balthasar s thought yet to appear. David C. Schindler, junior associate professor of philosophy, Villanova University"
O Regan s telling of this theological story is nothing less than a tour d force! John Thiel, professor of religious studies, Fairfield University"
"With breath-taking ambition, matched with both erudition and a forensic incisiveness, O'Regan gathers together the premodern tradition and the fragments of it that modernity can never shake off, to prescribe a new basis for a genuinely post-modern theology. What is promised in a future volume on Balthasar and Heidegger, and what is already delivered in this book, is nothing short of amazing. The scholarly commitment it demonstrates provides the Church with a new way of proceeding that is as important as it is significant." --Graham Ward, Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Oxford
About the Author:
Cyril O'Regan is the Huisking Chair of Theology at the University of Notre Dame where he teaches on the subjects of systematic, historical, and philosophical theology. His writings have been widely published and he is the author of Gnostic Apocalypse, Gnostic Return in Modernity, and The Heterodox Hegel. He lives in Notre Dame, Indiana.
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