Which author of a 1970 book about Easter is considered one of the most important Roman Catholic theologians of the 20th century?
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Mysterium Paschale Mysterium Paschale. The Mystery of Easter (German: "Theologie der Drei Tage" ) is a 1970 book by the Swiss theologian and Catholic priest Hans Urs von Balthasar. It offers an account of the death and resurrection of Christ, and their significance for the Christian life. Balthasar discusses the "bodiliness" of the Resurrection from the "radical" death of Jesus, involving his descent into the place of the dead on Holy Saturday. Balthasar's willingness to assume the nature and the consequence of his sin makes him, as well as the reader, extrapolate that God can endure and conquer godlessness, abandonment, and death. In the "Preface to the Second Edition", Balthasar takes a cue from Revelation (Vulgate: "agni qui occisus est ab origine mundi", NIV: "the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world") to explore the idea that, from the "immanent Trinity" up to the "economic" One, "God is love" consists in an "eternal super-kenosis".
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Hans Urs von Balthasar Hans Urs von Balthasar (12 August 1905 – 26 June 1988) was a Swiss theologian and Catholic priest who was to be created a cardinal of the Catholic Church but died before the ceremony. He is considered one of the most important Roman Catholic theologians of the 20th century.
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Raymond E. Brown Raymond Edward Brown, S.S. (May 22, 1928 – August 8, 1998), was an American Catholic priest, a member of the Sulpician Fathers and a prominent Biblical scholar. He was regarded as a specialist concerning the hypothetical "Johannine community", which he speculated contributed to the authorship of the Gospel of John, and he also wrote influential studies on the birth and death of Jesus. Brown was professor emeritus at Union Theological Seminary (UTS) in New York where he taught for 29 years. He was the first Catholic professor to gain tenure there, where he earned a reputation as a superior lecturer.
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Gerhard Ebeling Gerhard Ebeling (6 July 1912 – 30 September 2001) was a German Lutheran theologian and with Ernst Fuchs a leading proponent of hermeneutic theology in the 20th century. He was born in Berlin-Steglitz, where he attended the gymnasium and began his university study. Ebeling was later a student of Rudolf Bultmann and Wilhelm Maurer in Marburg and of Emil Brunner at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. The years of his study in Berlin, Marburg and Zürich fell in the period of National Socialism in Germany, and his contact with Dietrich Bonhoeffer as well as his work in the Confessing Church had an enduring influence on his thought. He completed his Doctor of Theology degree in 1938 at the University of Zürich under the guidance of Fritz Blanke; his dissertation was entitled "Evangelical Interpretation of the Gospels: An Investigation of Luther's Hermeneutic". Already in this early work, Ebeling's interest in systematic as well as historical questions was very apparent. At the end of the Second World War, he completed in 1947 his habilitation at the University of Tübingen, Germany and assumed the chair for church history in Tübingen. In 1954 Ebeling changed his focus of study from church history to systematic theology and became Professor for Systematic Theologie in Tübingen. Two years later, he was called to the University of Zürich in systematic. With the exception of the period from 1965–1968, when he was once again in Tübingen, Ebeling remained in Zürich, where he was the founder and, until his retirement in 1979, the director of the Institute for Hermeneutics.
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Charles Borromeo Charles Borromeo (Italian: "Carlo Borromeo" , Latin: "Carolus Borromeus" , 2 October 1538 – 3 November 1584) was Roman Catholic archbishop of Milan from 1564 to 1584 and a cardinal. He was a leading figure of the Counter-Reformation combat against the Protestant Reformation together with St. Ignatius of Loyola and St. Philip Neri. In that role he was responsible for significant reforms in the Catholic Church, including the founding of seminaries for the education of priests. He is honored as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church, with a feast day on November 4.
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William Francis Barry Rev. Dr. William Francis Barry (21 April 1849 – 15 December 1930) was a British Catholic priest, theologian, educator and writer. He served as vice president and professor of philosophy at Birmingham Theological College from 1873 to 1877 and then professor of divinity at Oscott College from 1877 to 1880. A distinguished ecclesiastic, Barry gave lectures in both Great Britain and the United States during the 1890s. He was also a popular author and novelist at the start of the 20th century, whose books usually dealt with then controversial religious and social questions, and is credited as the creator of the modern English Catholic novel.
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Giuseppe Ricciotti Abbot Giuseppe Ricciotti, C.R.L., (Rome, 1890 – 1964) was an Italian canon regular, Biblical scholar and archeologist. He is mainly famous for his book "The Life of Christ" edited in 1941 and reedited and reprinted several times.
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Massey H. Shepherd Massey Hamilton Shepherd, Jr. (March 14, 1913 – February 19, 1990) was an American a priest of the Episcopal Church. He was a prominent American liturgical scholar and one of the few Americans and members of other Christian churches honored with an invitation to participate in Vatican II council of the Roman Catholic Church in the 1960s. He was a leading figure in developing the 1979 Book of Common Prayer used by the Episcopal Church.
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Thomas Sheehan (academic) Thomas Sheehan (born 25 June 1941) is a professor at the Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University and Professor Emeritus at the Department of Philosophy, Loyola University Chicago. He is known for his books on Heidegger and Roman Catholicism. His philosophical specialties are in philosophy of religion, twentieth-century European philosophy, and classical metaphysics. He is the author of "The First Coming", a widely acclaimed and controversial account of Easter.
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Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger (10 November 1819 – 19 June 1883) was a leading German Catholic theologian and author of the "Enchiridion Symbolorum et Definitionum" (Handbook of Creeds and Definitions) commonly referred to simply as "Denzinger".
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Pope John Paul II in popular culture As one of the best known and well-travelled persons of the 20th century, there are many cultural references to Pope John Paul II (18 May 1920 – 2 April 2005), who reigned as the 264th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and Sovereign of the State of the Vatican City from 16 October 1978, until his death, almost 27 years later, making his the second-longest pontificate after Pius IX's 31-year reign. In addition to his own extensive writings, many films, television programs, books, and journal articles have been written about John Paul II.
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The Catholic Catechism (Hardon) The Catholic Catechism is a major volume on the teachings of the Catholic Church written by John Hardon and published in 1975. It was written at the request of Pope Paul VI to counter the emergence of perceived rampant liberalism after the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965).
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John P. Meier John Paul Meier (born 1942) is an American biblical scholar and Roman Catholic priest. He is author of the series "A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus" (5 v.), six other books, and more than 70 articles for peer-reviewed or solicited journals or books.
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Eschatology: Death and Eternal Life Eschatology: Death and Eternal Life (German: "Eschatologie, Tod und ewiges Leben" ) is a 1988 book written by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI). The book is the study of the "eschaton", the times of the end, or "last things", such as the parousia, heaven, and hell. Among the issues addressed in it is the concept of purgatory, which he argues may be existential—not temporal—in duration.
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Hugh Heywood Hugh Christopher Lemprière Heywood (5 November 1896 – 8 May 1987) was an eminent Anglican priest and author in the mid 20th century.
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Peter Martyr Vermigli Peter Martyr Vermigli (8 September 1499 – 12 November 1562) was an Italian-born Reformed theologian. His early work as a reformer in Catholic medieval Italy and decision to flee for Protestant northern Europe influenced many other Italians to convert and flee as well. In England, he influenced the Edwardian Reformation, including the Eucharistic service of the 1552 "Book of Common Prayer". He was considered an authority on the Eucharist among the Reformed churches, and engaged in controversies on the subject by writing treatises. Vermigli's "Loci Communes", a compilation of excerpts from his biblical commentaries organized by the topics of systematic theology, became a standard Reformed theological textbook.
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Pollution and the Death of Man Pollution and the Death of Man is an ecological and philosophical work by the American presuppositionalist theologian Francis A. Schaeffer, published in 1970.
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Joseph Malègue Joseph Malègue (8 December 1876 – 30 December 1940), was a French catholic novelist, principally author of ' (1933) and '. He was also a theologian and published some theological surveys, as "Pénombres" about Faith and against Fideism. His first novel is, following the French historian of spirituality Émile Goichot, the most accurately linked to Modernism. Pope Francis quoted in several circumstances, among them in El Jesuita this Malègue's view about Incarnation : ‘’ It is not Christ who is incomprehensible for me if He is God, it is God who is strange for me if He is not Christ.‘’
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Mary Grey (theologian) Mary Cecilia Grey (born 16 June 1941 at Houghton-le-Spring, County Durham, UK) is a Roman Catholic ecofeminist liberation theologian in the United Kingdom She edited the journal "Ecotheology" for 10 years. Grey is currently a professorial research fellow at St Mary's University, Twickenham. She has previously been a professor teaching pastoral theology at the University of Wales, Lampeter; contemporary theology at the University of Southampton, La Sainte Union; and Feminism and Christianity at the Catholic University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands.
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Bernard Loomer Bernard MacDougall Loomer (March 5, 1912 – August 1985) was an American professor and theologian. Longtime Dean of the University of Chicago Divinity School and a leading proponent of Process Theology, Loomer wrote “The world is God because it is the source and preserver of meaning; because the creative advance of the world in its adventure is the supreme cause to be served; because even in our desecration of our space and time within it, the world is holy ground; and because it contains and yet enshrouds the ultimate mystery inherent within existence itself. . . . The world in all the dimensions of its being is the basis for all our wonder, awe, and inquiry.” Loomer decried theological certainty and delighted in the wonder of existence: “Final answers are not to be trusted. We are born in mystery, we live in mystery, and we die in mystery."
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Postmodern Christianity Postmodern Christianity, also known as postmodern theology, refers to a style of Christian theology influenced by postmodern philosophy. Although a relatively recent development within Christianity, mainly inspired by post-Heideggerian continental philosophy developed c. 1960s to present, some Christian postmodernists assert that their style of thought has an affinity with foundational Christian thinkers such as Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas, and famed Christian mystics such as Meister Eckhart and Angelus Silesius.
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Mediator Dei Mediator Dei, a papal encyclical, was issued by Pope Pius XII on 20 November 1947. It was the first encyclical devoted entirely to liturgy. The encyclical suggested new directions and active participation instead of a merely passive role for the faithful in the liturgy, in liturgical ceremonies and in the life of their parish. The encyclical also emphasized the importance of the Eucharist. "Mediator Dei" is one of the more important encyclicals of Pope Pius XII. The encyclical condemned certain excesses of liturgical reform and stressed the importance of the union of sacrifice and altar with communion, which greatly directed the reforms undertaken during and after Vatican II. It was written in part in response to the liturgical movement under way since early in the 20th century.