Writing them has sometimes been a labour, but it has been a labour of love on behalf of the faith of the Church In T&T Clark's publishing house who have made the production of these books so singularly free of heartache. The completion of the present study seems a good time to thank too all those This makes appropriate the choice of title and epigraph, for which I am again indebted to the distinguished poet, Not that the second and third volumes of Theologik - on the difference made to ontology by Christology and Pneumatology - are an afterthought in this respect.įor Balthasar, as his (separate) Epilog to the trilogy,Īlso discussed here, points out, understanding of the missions of Son and Spirit not only confirms the judgmentsĪbout the world's being as divine epiphany made in the opening ontology but also shows the being of the world flowering Language, in which being comes to expression. Hegel, Balthasar's logic is his ontology, his study of being - though to be sure there are discussions here of But of logic as ordinarily understood - whether the traditional syllogistic variety, or the modal logicįavoured in the later Middle Ages as again today, or the symbolic logic of the mathematically inclined, they willįind little if any trace in Say It Is Pentecost.

Readers of my two earlier commentaries, The Word Has Been Abroad and No Bloodless Myth, will have found some material on and the drama, respectively: enough to explain the terms ' aesthetics ' and ' dramatics ' which control the sub-titles of these ' Guides '. In the remaining volumes of Theologik itself. Is rewarded, however, with a fuller grasp of Balthasar's contentions in the aesthetics and dramatics, as well as German philosophical tradition, theologically re-worked - it is hardly the least demanding.

Opening volume, Balthasar's metaphysics and epistemology - a synthesis of Christian Scholasticism and the classical

The last member of the trio, the theological logic, is also the shortest. Herrlichkeit, Theodramatik, Theologik - with an interpretative With the present work, I come to the end of my task of providing Balthasar's prolix trilogy The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Péguy Met with coagulate magnified flowers of may Or say it is Pentecost: the hawthorn-tree,

Say it is Pentecost by Fr Aidan Nichols OPġ4 The Emergence of the World through the Wordę1ġ7Ěnd Made Sin: The Logic of Contradictionđ19Ģ2ĝyad in the Triad: The Father's 'Two Hands'đ47Ģ3 The Spirit and the Church: Logical Preliminariesđ61Ģ4 The Spirit and the Church: Subjective and Objectiveđ71

Under the hawthorn tree trilogy