Radical Revelation - Mezei, Balázs M.

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Résumé :

This volume offers a practical and innovative interpretation of divine revelation, from a philosophical-theological perspective. Bal?zs M. Mezei outlines the most important presuppositions of our notion of divine revelation in a historic and semantic setting, as well as elaborating upon the methodology of model analysis. He then introduces and analyses the notion of self-revelation as the most important modern understanding of divine revelation...

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Acknowledgments
Foreword
1. General Introduction
2. Structure and Content

Chapter One: What is Revelation?

1. Preliminaries
2. The Presuppositions of Revelation
3. The Semantics of Revelation
4. The Historical Origins of Revelation
5. The Cognitive Origins of Revelation
6. The Fact of Revelation
7. Theories of Revelation
8. A Radical Philosophical Theology
9. Sources of Revelation

Chapter Two: Models of Revelation

1. Preliminaries
2. Kinds, Types, and Models
3. Forms of Revelation
4. From Forms to Models
5. Systems of Models
6. An Example: The Liturgy
7. A Concluding Remark

Chapter Three: Self-Revelation

1. Preliminaries
2. The Grammar of Self-Revelation
3. The History of Self-Revelation
4. The Model of Self-Revelation
5. Self and Unity
6. Self and Persons
7. Radical Personhood
8. Radical Personhood as kenosis
9. Self-Revelation as Radical Personhood

Chapter Four: Radical Revelation

1. Preliminaries
2. Self-revelation and Radical Revelation
3. Radical Revelation as the Fact of Freedom
4. The Eight Gestures of Freedom
a) Birth
b) Growth
c) Entry
d) Healing
e) Radiance
f) Transfiguration
g) Kenosis
h) Overcoming
5. Radical Re-velation
6. Radical Revelation as apokalypsis

Chapter Five: The Revelation of Apocalyptic Personhood

1. Preliminaries
2. The Last Judgment of Michelangelo
3. Aspects of Apocalyptic Personhood
a) The Kingdom of God
b) The Son of Man
c) Resurrection
d) Pentecost
e) Conversion
f) Stoning
g) The Lamb of God
4. Trinitarian Relations

Chapter Six: Apocalyptic Phenomenology

1. Preliminaries
2. From Openness to Newness
3. Newness as Personhood
4. A Phenomenology of Disclosure
5. The Principle of Refusivum Sui
6. Models of Disclosure
a) Augustine's Confessional Apocalypse
b) An Apocalypse of Contrasts
c) A Faustian Apocalypse
d) The Visage as Apocalypse
7. The Musical Genius

Chapter Seven: The Catholicity of Revelation

1. On Overtures
2. Architectonics
3. Catholicity
4. Faith
5. Hope
6. Love
7. Prospects

Conclusion

Appendix I: The Concentric Model of Revelation

Appendix II: The Ramifications of Revelation

Appendix III: Aspects of Catholicity

Appendix IV: An Outline of the Study of Apocalyptics

Bibliography

Index of Names

Index of Biblical Passages

Index of Art Works