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Ausgabe:

Mai/2019

Spalte:

518–520

Kategorie:

Systematische Theologie: Dogmatik

Autor/Hrsg.:

Mezei, Balázs M.

Titel/Untertitel:

Radical Revelation.

Verlag:

London u. a.: Bloomsbury T & T Clark 2017. 384 S. = Illuminating Modernity. Geb. £ 110,00. ISBN 978-0-567-67778-5.

Rezensent:

Joshua Kira

Balázs M. Mezei’s Radical Revelation is his second major work dealing with the philosophical analysis of the Christian concept of revelation. His first, Religion and Revelation after Auschwitz, took the tragedy of World War II as a point to address the difficulties of religion in light of tragic anguish. In doing so, he broaches themes that he will continue in Radical Revelation, namely the relation-ship of past suffering to the newness that the future affords. Yet, whereas his previous work begins with a concrete event, his latter book assumes the »fact of revelation« (35–42) and works out a philosophical theology of revelation, with its attendant implications. In doing so, M. provides an intriguing exercise that is related to the contemporary Catholic ...


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