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  Modern TheologyVolume 22 Issue 4, Pages 577 - 607 Published Online: 26 Sep 2006 Journal compilation © 2010 Blackwell Publishing
Abstract | Full Text: HTML, PDF (Size: 173K) | Related Articles | Citation Tracking  TOWARDS A NON-POSSESSIVE CONCEPT OF KNOWLEDGE: ON THE RELATION BETWEEN REASON AND LOVE IN AQUINAS AND BALTHASAR Copyright © 2006 The Author; Journal compilation © 2006 Blackwell Publishing Ltd Abstract
Because of the consistent emphasis he places on the supremacy of love, Hans Urs von Balthasar has occasionally been thought to incline toward a problematic irrationalism. This essay addresses this charge through a comparison of Aquinas and Balthasar on the question of the relationship between intellect and will. It is argued that the superiority of intellect over will generally attributed to Aquinas itself leads paradoxically to irrationalism whenever the object exceeds the soul, and that Balthasar's insistence on the supremacy of love—precisely because it integrates will and intellect and thereby makes the intellectual act structurally ecstatic—in fact allows us to avoid such an irrationalism. | 
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