School of Theology and Seminary Graduate Papers/Theses
Date of Award
5-23-2014
Document Type
Graduate Paper
Degree Name
Master of Arts in Systematic Theology
Department
School of Theology and Seminary
First Advisor
S. Helen Rolfson, OSF
Subject Categories
Christianity | Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Abstract
This graduate paper is on the topic of joy, especially as understood in the commentaries of Adrienne von Speyr, and the writings of Hans Urs von Balthasar. In this paper, I show Christian joy as participation in God’s own joy through an illuminated and inter-personal life-giving love as given through and shown in the entire life of Jesus Christ, from the Incarnation, through the suffering Passion, and unto the Resurrection.
Recommended Citation
Beach, Trevor SJ, "Joy as Illumination: Participation in God's Life-giving Trinitarian Love" (2014). School of Theology and Seminary Graduate Papers/Theses. 1381.
https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/sot_papers/1381
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