The Scandal of the Cross: Erich Przywara's Theology of Christ and the Analogia Entis
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2022-07-20
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en
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This thesis discusses the work of Erich Przywara in the context of the controversy about the
analogia entis with Karl Barth, which is continued in the work of Keith Johnson and John
Betz. A close reading of some later essays of Przywara proves the intrinsic connection
between his ‘theology of Christ’ and the analogia entis. Only an analogical understanding of
being enables the ‘unity-in-tension’ of God and creature in Christ. Philosophy participates in
Adam’s fall, but also in Christ’s redemption as its de-absolutization. Philosophy and theology
culminate in a reductio in mysterium, an awareness of the omnipresence of the ‘ever greater’
God. The same understanding of the connection between Christ and the analogia entis is
found in Przywara’s early work.
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Faculteit der Filosofie, Theologie en Religiewetenschappen