Erich Przywara (1889-1972) was an influential German Jesuit theologian who himself was strongly influenced by Augustine, Aquinas, Newman, and the phenomenological philosophy of Edmund Husserl and Max Scheler. John Betz teaches systematic theology at University of Notre Dame, Indiana. David Bentley Hart is a philosopher, theologian, writer, and cultural commentator who has taught at the University of Virginia, Duke University, and the University of Notre Dame. His other books include The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth; A Splendid Wickedness and Other Essays; and Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies, which was awarded the Michael Ramsey Prize in Theology in 2011.
Alasdair MacIntyre
-- University of Notre Dame
"The publication of this excellent translation of Erich Przywara's
difficult and contentious book is an important event. Analogia
Entis poses an inescapable problem for theologians, that of how we
must understand the relationship of God's being to human beings in
order for us to be able to talk about God. Przywara was a notable
influence on some of the greatest Protestant and Catholic
theologians of the twentieth century. We need to learn from him if
we are to understand them." John Milbank
-- University of Nottingham
"At last English readers have available a translation of one of the
great masterworks of twentieth-century theology and philosophy,
giving them a much better sense of the course of both Catholic and
Protestant thought since the inter-war period. John Betz and David
Bentley Hart have done a remarkable
job of rendering Przywara's Analogia Entis into highly readable
English without losing any of the sense or nuances of the German
original." Reinhard H�tter
-- Duke Divinity School
"Arguably the most brilliant and simultaneously most enigmatic
Catholic intellectual of the earlier part of the twentieth century,
Erich Przywara argued eye to eye with Edmund Husserl, Max Scheler,
and Martin Heidegger, challenged Karl Barth, and through his famous
lectures inspired a host of influential Catholic thinkers. . . .
Finally, his magnum opus, Analogia Entis, is available in lucid
English prose -- an intellectual event of the first order. We are
deeply indebted to John Betz and David Bentley Hart for this
splendid labor of love." David Burrell
-- University of Notre Dame
"Be prepared to let a predilection for poetry spice austere
argument, to retrieve the pristine dynamic of analogy as Aquinas
invariably used it to render philosophy as a handmaid of faith."
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
"The publication of Erich Przywara's Analogia Entis is a major,
welcome event. . . . The excellent introduction will prove
necessary reading." Reviews in Religion and Theology
"An important piece of twentieth-century theology that has not been
given enough attention in the English-speaking world due in part to
the abstract nature of the subject matter and the difficulty that
nonnative speakers have in reading Przywara's German. Przywara's
approach to the doctrine of the analogia entis is both highly
original as well as based on tradition. It is therefore in its own
right an important piece of theology, but as an influence on the
theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar and Karl Rahner, and as Karl
Barth's primary Catholic interlocutor, Przywara's theology is also
important for understanding the moves made in twentieth-century
theology more generally. . . . This English translation of Analogia
Entis will facilitate such access and hopefully bring Przywara into
a more prominent place in discussions surrounding twentieth-century
theology." Horizons
"The translators are to be congratulated for having resurrected
this treasure of a book so well and for giving it a new life in
English at the junction of philosophy and theology we have come to.
One can only hope that it will be read and studied as widely as it
deserves."
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