Written in 1975 as a birthday greeting to the theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar, Klaus Hemmerle \'s Theses Towards A Trinitarian Ontology is of the highest theological moment as a key source text for the recent widespread interest in the idea of a "Trinitarian ontology." Drawing on Hemmerle\'s deep familiarity with German Idealism, the Theses sketch an Ontology beginning not from invariance, but from "self-giving," from kenosis, and articulate.
Written in 1975 as a birthday greeting to the theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar, Klaus Hemmerle \'s Theses Towards A Trinitarian Ontology is of the highest theological moment as a key source text for the recent widespread interest in the idea of a "Trinitarian ontology." Drawing on Hemmerle\'s deep familiarity with German Idealism, the Theses sketch an Ontology beginning not from invariance, but from "self-giving," from kenosis, and articulate
