The infinitude of beauty as expression of the beauty of the infinite? : a critical evaluation of the use of the analogia entis in the theological aesthetics of David Bentley Hart

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study is to investigate if American Orthodox theologian DavidBentley Hart's use of the classical Thomistic principle of the analogia entis (in hismonograph The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth), can bedeemed to be a valid, responsible and beneficial manner of affirming a continuitybetween the beauty of God and the beauty of creation, and opposing theseemingly problematic worldview of dualism.After reviewing a selection of works in the field of theological aesthetics, this studyis conducted both as a historical analysis and a systematic exposition on theanalogia entis, by critically examining the use (and critique) of analogy and theanalogy of being in Greek (Aristotle), Scholastic (Thomas Aquinas) and 20thcentury thought (Erich Przywara, Karl Barth and Hans Urs von Balthasar), beforeinspecting and ultimately affirming David Bentley Hart's own use thereof (inregards to the beauty of God and the beauty of creation).

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University