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Active Self-transcendence
Admirable Exchange
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Christian eschatology
Christological Mystery
Communicatio Idiomatum
Creaturely Existence
Eberhard Jungel
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Eschatological Fullness
Funeral Liturgy
God's Merciful Love
God's Self-communication
God's Sovereign Freedom
God’s Merciful Love
God’s Self-communication
God’s Sovereign Freedom
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
Holy Spirit studies
Human Life Time
liturgical implications
Man Jesus
Negative Reality
Paschal Mystery
pastoral theology
Pilgrim Life
Poena Damni
resurrection theology
soteriology
Synoptic Story
transformative death in Christian doctrine
True Humanity
Unfathomable Love
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Von Balthasar
Von Balthasar's Theology
Von Balthasar’s Theology
Young Men
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- ISBN 9781409423492
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jun 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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A key tenet of Christian faith is that the crucifixion of Jesus Christ is a unique death by which the powers of death in the world have been conquered, so that Christian life in the Spirit is marked by the promise and hope of 'new life' already anticipated in the community of baptized believers. Notwithstanding this basic tenet regarding the Christian life as a participation in the redemptive death of Jesus Christ, theology in the past, as well as much contemporary theology, tends to assign no salvific significance to the event of our own death, focusing instead on death in negative terms as the wages of sin. This work is a significant retort to theological neglect, both Catholic and Protestant, of the positive and transformative aspect of our death when conceived as a dying into the redemptive death of Jesus Christ. The development of Henry L. Novello's proposed theology of death takes place in conversation with the pre-eminent contemporary contributors to this field of theological inquiry. By offering comprehensive critiques of Karl Rahner, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Karl Barth, Eberhard Jüngel and Jürgen Moltmann, Novello painstakingly pieces together a positive construal of death as salvific and transformative. What is especially distinctive about Novello's work is that he develops the idea of death as a sharing in the 'admirable exchange of natures' in the person of Jesus Christ, from which emerges his theory of resurrection at death for all. The reach of the work is extended by exploring some pastoral and liturgical implications of a theology of death conceived as the privileged moment for the actualization of God's grace in Jesus Christ, and thus being created anew in the power of the Spirit.
Henry L. Novello taught Systematic Theology for several years at the University of Notre Dame Australia (Fremantle) and has published articles in Gregorianum, Pacifica, Irish Theological Quarterly, Colloquium, Compass and Australasian Catholic Record. He is currently an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Theology at The Flinders University of South Australia. His special field of interest is eschatology.
