Anne M. Carpenter is assistant professor of Catholic systematic theology at Saint Mary's College of California.
"How do we value the theological in artistic works? In this book
Anne Carpenter creates a significant map to the expansive landscape
proposed by theological aesthetics. As she reenacts the “interplay”
of poetry and philosophy yielding theology in von Balthasar and his
interlocutors, Carpenter points toward the incarnated beauty of
human creativity and the inherent unity of reason and heart.
Through her careful 'untangling' of the role of the poetic in
making theologizing possible, Carpenter confers gravitas on the
utterances of artists known and unknown, whose creative abundance
overflows and provides us new and important vistas into the
in-breaking glory of God." —Cecilia González-Andrieu, Loyola
Marymount University
"This is a beautifully written work engaging von Balthasar's
attempt to wed aesthetics back into the essence of theology.
Carpenter presents a sophisticated and creative study of the
importance of the aesthetics of the written word in order to reveal
the importance of von Balthasar’s project but also to advance it.
The work presents a clear overview of the heart of von Balthasar’s
work, but also a fresh application of it through an analysis of
poetry. The book provides a rich source for contemplating the
eternal Word, God’s most creative act of poetry uttered eternally."
—John Dadosky, Regis College/University of Toronto
"Anne M. Carpenter turns a lot of difficult and abstruse research
about Hans Urs von Balthasar in the scholarly literature into a
lively and readable book. The volume achieves the goal of
explaining the poetic form of von Balthasar's writing, tracing it
back to the centrality of the concept of expression in his
philosophical theology. The special value of the book is that it
explains new developments of von Balthasar and recent objections to
von Balthasar in a way that makes them accessible, gathering a lot
of diverse scholarship into a single quite short book." —Francesca
Murphy, University of Notre Dame
“The author seeks to give a positive rather than a critical account
of Balthasar’s epistemology. To that end she not only draws on a
wide range of the famous theologian’s writings but also on much of
the secondary literature.” —Theology
“Theo-Poetics importantly emphasizes how von Balthasar’s work can
be fruitful for what we could call a theological life . . . which
Carpenter so crucially puts at the center.” —Cummins Institute Blog
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