The Princeton Seminary Bulletin, 1988, Vol. 9 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Princeton Seminary Bulletin, 1988, Vol. 9 And yet the ironies of history: the most important theological result of von Balthasar's book was that the whole antithesis between the analogy of being and the analogy of faith, so strongly emphasized by Barth, was shown up as afalse problem. Whatever may go on in popular Catholic piety, Cath olic theology and the Catholic Church are grounded in faith, they cannot and will not usurp the grace of God. Barth had been taken in hand, theo logically, by von Balthasar's meticulous distinguishing of the shades of meaning in the term nature, and the more time that passed the more he had to concede this. In the mid - 19503 when I, as a young man (worried by these problems, like many other Catholic theologians), spoke to Barth about this controversy, he showed he was a man not only of holy wrath, but of winning humor too, when he answered: In theology you never know: Has he got me, or have'i got him? And with respect to the much disputed analogy of being, the sole reason one could not become a Catholic, he simply said: I've buried it. And as a matter of fact - without, of course, ever publicly explaining himself - Barth never used the expression afterwards. But that in no way prevented backwards Catholic theologians (and some times Protestant ones too), who would have liked to see the schism in the Church grounded and secured not just with the pope, the Church, and the sacraments, but, more, with the Holy Spirit, with Jesus Christ, or indeed with God the Father in person, from lavishing loving care on the analogy of being as the actual point of discord dividing the Church. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.