![]() ![]() ![]() By loving, the saints are conformed or attuned to truth. Love is a disposition of receptivity, surrender, and obedience, an ecstatic charity toward something beyond the self. As Moser summarizes this form of knowledge, “he saints know as lovers do, that is, by loving. Of greatest interest to Moser is von Balthasar’s view of “saintly knowing” (xxi), or the ways in which the saints offer a distinctive and noteworthy religious epistemology. In Love Itself Is Understanding, Matthew Rothaus Moser endeavors to fill this lacuna through a meticulous examination of von Balthasar’s treatment of the saints, and the result is the most detailed, engaging, and creative discussion of the topic in Balthasar’s theology to date. Scholars of the ex-Jesuit theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905–88) have long recognized that the saints occupy a prominent position in his theology, yet careful studies of this feature of his thought are still acutely needed. ![]()
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