Man exceeds himself aesthetically, dramatically and theologically. The concept of transcendence in the work of Hans Urs von Balthasar
Abstract
The cornerstone of the concept of transcendence Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905 - 1988) , Swiss systematic theologian and thinker , is the fundamental openness of the human beings who live and can live only from a session of relation to something / someone that is not her own. This inevitably exceeds itself.
In this overreaching plays an important role in its embeddedness in space and time , which defines the concreteness of his being , his spirit and ability to relate to the universal , which means stvořenosti own knowledge and dependence on the Creator. This knowledge has the character of a direct dependence : the more a person recognizes his addiction , the more he becomes himself.
Knowledge of reality is possible only in the relations of unity, truth, beauty and goodness , the transcendentáliích. Through it, man recognizes the fact that the embattled entity that is able to reveal the nature of the transcendent God in the complexity of being ( Being together ) , especially through the person of Jesus Christ.