@article{ref1,
title="Contesting the world and the divine: balthasar's trinitarian “response” to gianni vattimo's secular christianity",
journal="Modern theology",
year="2007",
author="Sciglitano, Jr.",
volume="23",
number="4",
pages="525-559",
abstract="This essay joins the contemporary debate over the proper theological and philosophical hermeneutic for interpreting the phenomenon of secularism. The first part offers a sustained Balthasar-influenced critique of Gianni Vattimo's secular translation of Christianity. I argue that Vattimo's Heideggerian-Hegelian influenced reading of secularism as Christianity's proper telos is both philosophically and theologically problematic. Part Two of this article reads Balthasar's work as a response to the philosophical and theological underpinnings of Vattimo's thought. Balthasar would argue that it is in a more traditional, yet remarkably daring account of the Trinitarian relations that the “secular” finds both its ground and dignity.<p />",
language="",
issn="0266-7177",
doi="10.1111/j.1468-0025.2007.00408.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0025.2007.00408.x"
}