John R. Betz (Ph.D., University of Virginia) is associate professor of systematic theology at the University of Notre Dame. In addition to a number of articles, which have appeared in Modern Theology and other scholarly journals, he is the author of After Enlightenment: The Post-Secular Vision of J. G. Hamann (Wiley, 2009), and the translator, with David B. Hart, of Erich Przywara's Analogia Entis: Metaphysics, Original Structure, and Universal Rhythm (Eerdmans, 2014).

• Preface xvAn Overview of the Parts and Chapters xxivAcknowledgments xxix1. Introduction: Christ, the Logos of Creation 11. The Pros and Cons of the Standard Translation 52. The Verbal Ontology of J. G. Hamann 103. Ambiguities of the Word 174. Theological Metaphysics? 205. A Response to Critics 276. Metaphysics and Phenomenology 387. Analogical (Chalcedonian) Metaphysics 44Part I—After Barth: The Recovery of Analogical Metaphysics 532. Erich Przywara and Karl Barth: The Debate about the Analogia Entis 551. Barth–Przywara: First Encounters 582. The Prehistory of the Analogia Entis 633. The Analogia Entis and Natural Theology 694. “Dynamic Polarity”: The Augustinian Rhythm of the Analogia Entis 765. Religionsphilosophie katholischer Theologie (1927) 826. After Barth: Some Final Clarifications 893. Analogy and Theo-Foundational Epistemology: The Problem, Possibility,  and Reality of Theological Knowledge 1091. The Problem of Theological Epistemology 1122. Barth’s Critique of (Philosophical) Analogy and Catholic Epistemology 117 3. A Modest Response and Proposal 1224. The Analogia Entis as Negative Apologetics 1275. The Analogical Reality of Theological Knowledge 1366. The Dialectical Analogy of Theological Epistemology 1427. Return to the Way: Or the Method of Theological Knowledge 1448. Toward an Ecumenical Epistemology 150Part II—Analogical Metaphysics and Christian Doctrine 1574. Analogical Metaphysics and Trinitarian Theology 1591. Toward a More Adequate Method: The Complications of Philosophy  and Theology 1602. Analogical Metaphysics 1673. The Threshold 1724. From Analogical Metaphysics to Trinitarian Theology 1765. A Modest Ecumenical Proposal 1886. Back to Augustine 1937. Conclusion 1965. The Metaphysics of Chalcedon: Christ as the Concrete Analogia Entis 2011. Analogy or Paradox? 2052. The Metaphysics of Chalcedon 2103. Analogy as Agape 2184. Agape as Commercium 2255. Conclusion 2296. From Image to Likeness: An Essay in Analogical Anthropology 2311. Homo Analogia: Between Promise and Fulfillment 2382. Homo Analogia: Between Heaven and Earth 2423. Homo Analogia: Between Image and Likeness 2494. Toward a More Adequate Anthropology 2545. The Christological Intersection of Metaphysics and Anthropology 2616. Deeper and Higher: The Mystery of the Imago Dei 2697. Homo Spiritualis: De Lubac’s Recovery of a Tripartite Anthropology 2848. The Oblivion and Recovery of the Whole Human Being 2959. Divine and Human: Analogical Identities 30110. Conclusion: A Mystical-Metaphysical Anthropology 309Part III—Analogical Solutions to Disputed Questions 3177. The Analogy of Nature and Grace: Between Neo-Thomism  and Nouvelle Théologie 3191. Toward a More Catholic Approach 3211.1. Bernard Lonergan 3221.2. Fields and Hütter: Toward an Analogical Solution 3252. Przywara: Between De Lubac and Neo-Thomism 3292.1. The Unity of the Natural and the Supernatural (1923) 3322.2. Gratia non destruit, sed supponit et perficit naturam (1941) 3442.3. Nature and Reason in Aquinas 3513. The Analogical Crux of Nature and Grace 3548. The Humility of God: On a Disputed Question in Trinitarian Theology 3611. A Brief History of Kenosis in the German Tradition 3652. The Question of Balthasar’s Kenotic Theology 3713. Thomistic Criticism 3764. The Analogia Entis and Trinitarian Doctrine 3795. The Heart of the Matter: The Question of Divine Humility 3856. Przywara: Between Thomas and Balthasar 3927. Conclusion: A Palinode to Divine Humility 400Part IV—Toward a More Catholic Metaphysics 4079. The Analogia Entis in Erich Przywara and Ferdinand Ulrich: Toward a  More Catholic Metaphysics 4091. Theology as the Guardian of Metaphysics 4112. Catholic Metaphysics and Its Antagonists 4123. Balthasar’s Theo-Logic: Between Przywara and Ulrich 4144. Przywara’s Reading of the Real Distinction 4185. Ulrich’s Reading of the Real Distinction 4236. Conclusion 42710. The Circle of Analogy: Metaphysics, Christology, Anthropology 4331. Metaphysics, Christology, Anthropology 4392. Minimal and Maximal Analogy 4433. From Predicamental to Transcendental Analogy 4464. With and Beyond Barth and Heidegger 4495. Analogy as Katology 4536. Conclusion 45811. Christ, the Logos of Creation 4611. The Logos and the Analogy of Being 4662. After Barth and Heidegger: The Analogy of Philosophy and Theology 4683. Toward a More Ecumenical Epistemology 4754. Analogy in Dogmatic Theology 4784.1. Analogy and Trinitarian Theology 4784.2. Analogy in Christology 4844.3. Analogy in Anthropology 4895. Analogical Solutions: Toward a More Catholic Theology, Church, and Metaphysics 491 6. Conclusion 500Bibliography 509Index 539

John Betz's new book cements his stature as the leading expert on twentieth-century German philosophical theology. With immense learning, clarity of presentation, and unfailingly balanced judgment, Betz traces the conceptual and theological underpinnings of an analogical metaphysics as altogether central to the Christian faith. One stands in awe of Betz's comprehensive and profound grasp of philosophical and theological questions and debates, from Plato and Aristotle all the way to Przywara, Barth, de Lubac, von Balthasar, and into the present. For anyone committed to an integrative view of faith and reason, Christ, the Logos of Creation will be obligatory reading and an inexhaustible font of insight." - Thomas Pfau Duke University and Divinity School"John Betz has written an extraordinary book on an extremely important topic. As the title suggests, Christ, the Logos of Creation: An Essay in Analogical Metaphysics, Betz wants to demonstrate that the Logos is not only the eternal Word of the Father but also the Word of creation. The Logos is the ground, pattern, goal, and the source of all being. The Logos is the beginning of all creation, and as the Logos incarnate, he is the end of all creation. Primacy belongs to the Logos alone. However, how is one to conceive and express this truth? Barth denied that analogical language was capable of doing so—metaphysics could not rightly speak of God. Betz, creatively and insightfully, with the aid of the Polish philosopher-theologian, Erich Przywara, offers a valuable and constructive way forward. Metaphysical concepts and the analogical language that expresses such metaphysics can rightly be applied to the divine Word such that he can, indeed, be proclaimed Logos of creation and redemption—and so all glory, honor, and praise belongs to him." - Thomas G. Weinandy, O.F.M., Capuchin Former member of the Vatican's International Theological Commission"The work of John Betz is a gift, on the one hand to Erich Przywara, whose genius requires a unique mind and heart to be able to receive and communicate its fecund treasures, and on the other hand to us, who would otherwise have had little access to this giant of the twentieth century. But this book does more than just communicate Przywara; it develops an analogical metaphysics that is profoundly original in its own right and promises to bear fruit that will last." - C. Schindler Pontifical John Paul II Institute, The Catholic University of America"John Betz has presented us with a masterly and comprehensive argument as to why the analogy of being, updated to take account of linguistic mediation of knowledge and fully understood as including articulations of the Trinity and Incarnation, allows a mediation of current debates concerning the relation of grace to nature and faith to reason. Agree or disagree, in part or in whole, his case must now be reckoned with." - John Milbank University of Nottingham"Betz elucidates a central riddle of Christian theology with an unmatched gift for resolving dark complexity into generative lucidity." - Judith Wolfe School of Divinity, St Mary's College, University of St Andrews

John R. Betz (Ph.D., University of Virginia) is associate professor of systematic theology at the University of Notre Dame. In addition to a number of articles, which have appeared in Modern Theology and other scholarly journals, he is the author of After Enlightenment: The Post-Secular Vision of J. G. Hamann (Wiley, 2009), and the translator, with David B. Hart, of Erich Przywara's Analogia Entis: Metaphysics, Original Structure, and Universal Rhythm (Eerdmans, 2014).

• Preface xvAn Overview of the Parts and Chapters xxivAcknowledgments xxix1. Introduction: Christ, the Logos of Creation 11. The Pros and Cons of the Standard Translation 52. The Verbal Ontology of J. G. Hamann 103. Ambiguities of the Word 174. Theological Metaphysics? 205. A Response to Critics 276. Metaphysics and Phenomenology 387. Analogical (Chalcedonian) Metaphysics 44Part I—After Barth: The Recovery of Analogical Metaphysics 532. Erich Przywara and Karl Barth: The Debate about the Analogia Entis 551. Barth–Przywara: First Encounters 582. The Prehistory of the Analogia Entis 633. The Analogia Entis and Natural Theology 694. “Dynamic Polarity”: The Augustinian Rhythm of the Analogia Entis 765. Religionsphilosophie katholischer Theologie (1927) 826. After Barth: Some Final Clarifications 893. Analogy and Theo-Foundational Epistemology: The Problem, Possibility,  and Reality of Theological Knowledge 1091. The Problem of Theological Epistemology 1122. Barth’s Critique of (Philosophical) Analogy and Catholic Epistemology 117 3. A Modest Response and Proposal 1224. The Analogia Entis as Negative Apologetics 1275. The Analogical Reality of Theological Knowledge 1366. The Dialectical Analogy of Theological Epistemology 1427. Return to the Way: Or the Method of Theological Knowledge 1448. Toward an Ecumenical Epistemology 150Part II—Analogical Metaphysics and Christian Doctrine 1574. Analogical Metaphysics and Trinitarian Theology 1591. Toward a More Adequate Method: The Complications of Philosophy  and Theology 1602. Analogical Metaphysics 1673. The Threshold 1724. From Analogical Metaphysics to Trinitarian Theology 1765. A Modest Ecumenical Proposal 1886. Back to Augustine 1937. Conclusion 1965. The Metaphysics of Chalcedon: Christ as the Concrete Analogia Entis 2011. Analogy or Paradox? 2052. The Metaphysics of Chalcedon 2103. Analogy as Agape 2184. Agape as Commercium 2255. Conclusion 2296. From Image to Likeness: An Essay in Analogical Anthropology 2311. Homo Analogia: Between Promise and Fulfillment 2382. Homo Analogia: Between Heaven and Earth 2423. Homo Analogia: Between Image and Likeness 2494. Toward a More Adequate Anthropology 2545. The Christological Intersection of Metaphysics and Anthropology 2616. Deeper and Higher: The Mystery of the Imago Dei 2697. Homo Spiritualis: De Lubac’s Recovery of a Tripartite Anthropology 2848. The Oblivion and Recovery of the Whole Human Being 2959. Divine and Human: Analogical Identities 30110. Conclusion: A Mystical-Metaphysical Anthropology 309Part III—Analogical Solutions to Disputed Questions 3177. The Analogy of Nature and Grace: Between Neo-Thomism  and Nouvelle Théologie 3191. Toward a More Catholic Approach 3211.1. Bernard Lonergan 3221.2. Fields and Hütter: Toward an Analogical Solution 3252. Przywara: Between De Lubac and Neo-Thomism 3292.1. The Unity of the Natural and the Supernatural (1923) 3322.2. Gratia non destruit, sed supponit et perficit naturam (1941) 3442.3. Nature and Reason in Aquinas 3513. The Analogical Crux of Nature and Grace 3548. The Humility of God: On a Disputed Question in Trinitarian Theology 3611. A Brief History of Kenosis in the German Tradition 3652. The Question of Balthasar’s Kenotic Theology 3713. Thomistic Criticism 3764. The Analogia Entis and Trinitarian Doctrine 3795. The Heart of the Matter: The Question of Divine Humility 3856. Przywara: Between Thomas and Balthasar 3927. Conclusion: A Palinode to Divine Humility 400Part IV—Toward a More Catholic Metaphysics 4079. The Analogia Entis in Erich Przywara and Ferdinand Ulrich: Toward a  More Catholic Metaphysics 4091. Theology as the Guardian of Metaphysics 4112. Catholic Metaphysics and Its Antagonists 4123. Balthasar’s Theo-Logic: Between Przywara and Ulrich 4144. Przywara’s Reading of the Real Distinction 4185. Ulrich’s Reading of the Real Distinction 4236. Conclusion 42710. The Circle of Analogy: Metaphysics, Christology, Anthropology 4331. Metaphysics, Christology, Anthropology 4392. Minimal and Maximal Analogy 4433. From Predicamental to Transcendental Analogy 4464. With and Beyond Barth and Heidegger 4495. Analogy as Katology 4536. Conclusion 45811. Christ, the Logos of Creation 4611. The Logos and the Analogy of Being 4662. After Barth and Heidegger: The Analogy of Philosophy and Theology 4683. Toward a More Ecumenical Epistemology 4754. Analogy in Dogmatic Theology 4784.1. Analogy and Trinitarian Theology 4784.2. Analogy in Christology 4844.3. Analogy in Anthropology 4895. Analogical Solutions: Toward a More Catholic Theology, Church, and Metaphysics 491 6. Conclusion 500Bibliography 509Index 539

John Betz's new book cements his stature as the leading expert on twentieth-century German philosophical theology. With immense learning, clarity of presentation, and unfailingly balanced judgment, Betz traces the conceptual and theological underpinnings of an analogical metaphysics as altogether central to the Christian faith. One stands in awe of Betz's comprehensive and profound grasp of philosophical and theological questions and debates, from Plato and Aristotle all the way to Przywara, Barth, de Lubac, von Balthasar, and into the present. For anyone committed to an integrative view of faith and reason, Christ, the Logos of Creation will be obligatory reading and an inexhaustible font of insight." - Thomas Pfau Duke University and Divinity School"John Betz has written an extraordinary book on an extremely important topic. As the title suggests, Christ, the Logos of Creation: An Essay in Analogical Metaphysics, Betz wants to demonstrate that the Logos is not only the eternal Word of the Father but also the Word of creation. The Logos is the ground, pattern, goal, and the source of all being. The Logos is the beginning of all creation, and as the Logos incarnate, he is the end of all creation. Primacy belongs to the Logos alone. However, how is one to conceive and express this truth? Barth denied that analogical language was capable of doing so—metaphysics could not rightly speak of God. Betz, creatively and insightfully, with the aid of the Polish philosopher-theologian, Erich Przywara, offers a valuable and constructive way forward. Metaphysical concepts and the analogical language that expresses such metaphysics can rightly be applied to the divine Word such that he can, indeed, be proclaimed Logos of creation and redemption—and so all glory, honor, and praise belongs to him." - Thomas G. Weinandy, O.F.M., Capuchin Former member of the Vatican's International Theological Commission"The work of John Betz is a gift, on the one hand to Erich Przywara, whose genius requires a unique mind and heart to be able to receive and communicate its fecund treasures, and on the other hand to us, who would otherwise have had little access to this giant of the twentieth century. But this book does more than just communicate Przywara; it develops an analogical metaphysics that is profoundly original in its own right and promises to bear fruit that will last." - C. Schindler Pontifical John Paul II Institute, The Catholic University of America"John Betz has presented us with a masterly and comprehensive argument as to why the analogy of being, updated to take account of linguistic mediation of knowledge and fully understood as including articulations of the Trinity and Incarnation, allows a mediation of current debates concerning the relation of grace to nature and faith to reason. Agree or disagree, in part or in whole, his case must now be reckoned with." - John Milbank University of Nottingham"Betz elucidates a central riddle of Christian theology with an unmatched gift for resolving dark complexity into generative lucidity." - Judith Wolfe School of Divinity, St Mary's College, University of St Andrews

John R. Betz (Ph.D., University of Virginia) is associate professor of systematic theology at the University of Notre Dame. In addition to a number of articles, which have appeared in Modern Theology and other scholarly journals, he is the author of After Enlightenment: The Post-Secular Vision of J. G. Hamann (Wiley, 2009), and the translator, with David B. Hart, of Erich Przywara's Analogia Entis: Metaphysics, Original Structure, and Universal Rhythm (Eerdmans, 2014).

• Preface xvAn Overview of the Parts and Chapters xxivAcknowledgments xxix1. Introduction: Christ, the Logos of Creation 11. The Pros and Cons of the Standard Translation 52. The Verbal Ontology of J. G. Hamann 103. Ambiguities of the Word 174. Theological Metaphysics? 205. A Response to Critics 276. Metaphysics and Phenomenology 387. Analogical (Chalcedonian) Metaphysics 44Part I—After Barth: The Recovery of Analogical Metaphysics 532. Erich Przywara and Karl Barth: The Debate about the Analogia Entis 551. Barth–Przywara: First Encounters 582. The Prehistory of the Analogia Entis 633. The Analogia Entis and Natural Theology 694. “Dynamic Polarity”: The Augustinian Rhythm of the Analogia Entis 765. Religionsphilosophie katholischer Theologie (1927) 826. After Barth: Some Final Clarifications 893. Analogy and Theo-Foundational Epistemology: The Problem, Possibility,  and Reality of Theological Knowledge 1091. The Problem of Theological Epistemology 1122. Barth’s Critique of (Philosophical) Analogy and Catholic Epistemology 117 3. A Modest Response and Proposal 1224. The Analogia Entis as Negative Apologetics 1275. The Analogical Reality of Theological Knowledge 1366. The Dialectical Analogy of Theological Epistemology 1427. Return to the Way: Or the Method of Theological Knowledge 1448. Toward an Ecumenical Epistemology 150Part II—Analogical Metaphysics and Christian Doctrine 1574. Analogical Metaphysics and Trinitarian Theology 1591. Toward a More Adequate Method: The Complications of Philosophy  and Theology 1602. Analogical Metaphysics 1673. The Threshold 1724. From Analogical Metaphysics to Trinitarian Theology 1765. A Modest Ecumenical Proposal 1886. Back to Augustine 1937. Conclusion 1965. The Metaphysics of Chalcedon: Christ as the Concrete Analogia Entis 2011. Analogy or Paradox? 2052. The Metaphysics of Chalcedon 2103. Analogy as Agape 2184. Agape as Commercium 2255. Conclusion 2296. From Image to Likeness: An Essay in Analogical Anthropology 2311. Homo Analogia: Between Promise and Fulfillment 2382. Homo Analogia: Between Heaven and Earth 2423. Homo Analogia: Between Image and Likeness 2494. Toward a More Adequate Anthropology 2545. The Christological Intersection of Metaphysics and Anthropology 2616. Deeper and Higher: The Mystery of the Imago Dei 2697. Homo Spiritualis: De Lubac’s Recovery of a Tripartite Anthropology 2848. The Oblivion and Recovery of the Whole Human Being 2959. Divine and Human: Analogical Identities 30110. Conclusion: A Mystical-Metaphysical Anthropology 309Part III—Analogical Solutions to Disputed Questions 3177. The Analogy of Nature and Grace: Between Neo-Thomism  and Nouvelle Théologie 3191. Toward a More Catholic Approach 3211.1. Bernard Lonergan 3221.2. Fields and Hütter: Toward an Analogical Solution 3252. Przywara: Between De Lubac and Neo-Thomism 3292.1. The Unity of the Natural and the Supernatural (1923) 3322.2. Gratia non destruit, sed supponit et perficit naturam (1941) 3442.3. Nature and Reason in Aquinas 3513. The Analogical Crux of Nature and Grace 3548. The Humility of God: On a Disputed Question in Trinitarian Theology 3611. A Brief History of Kenosis in the German Tradition 3652. The Question of Balthasar’s Kenotic Theology 3713. Thomistic Criticism 3764. The Analogia Entis and Trinitarian Doctrine 3795. The Heart of the Matter: The Question of Divine Humility 3856. Przywara: Between Thomas and Balthasar 3927. Conclusion: A Palinode to Divine Humility 400Part IV—Toward a More Catholic Metaphysics 4079. The Analogia Entis in Erich Przywara and Ferdinand Ulrich: Toward a  More Catholic Metaphysics 4091. Theology as the Guardian of Metaphysics 4112. Catholic Metaphysics and Its Antagonists 4123. Balthasar’s Theo-Logic: Between Przywara and Ulrich 4144. Przywara’s Reading of the Real Distinction 4185. Ulrich’s Reading of the Real Distinction 4236. Conclusion 42710. The Circle of Analogy: Metaphysics, Christology, Anthropology 4331. Metaphysics, Christology, Anthropology 4392. Minimal and Maximal Analogy 4433. From Predicamental to Transcendental Analogy 4464. With and Beyond Barth and Heidegger 4495. Analogy as Katology 4536. Conclusion 45811. Christ, the Logos of Creation 4611. The Logos and the Analogy of Being 4662. After Barth and Heidegger: The Analogy of Philosophy and Theology 4683. Toward a More Ecumenical Epistemology 4754. Analogy in Dogmatic Theology 4784.1. Analogy and Trinitarian Theology 4784.2. Analogy in Christology 4844.3. Analogy in Anthropology 4895. Analogical Solutions: Toward a More Catholic Theology, Church, and Metaphysics 491 6. Conclusion 500Bibliography 509Index 539

John Betz's new book cements his stature as the leading expert on twentieth-century German philosophical theology. With immense learning, clarity of presentation, and unfailingly balanced judgment, Betz traces the conceptual and theological underpinnings of an analogical metaphysics as altogether central to the Christian faith. One stands in awe of Betz's comprehensive and profound grasp of philosophical and theological questions and debates, from Plato and Aristotle all the way to Przywara, Barth, de Lubac, von Balthasar, and into the present. For anyone committed to an integrative view of faith and reason, Christ, the Logos of Creation will be obligatory reading and an inexhaustible font of insight." - Thomas Pfau Duke University and Divinity School"John Betz has written an extraordinary book on an extremely important topic. As the title suggests, Christ, the Logos of Creation: An Essay in Analogical Metaphysics, Betz wants to demonstrate that the Logos is not only the eternal Word of the Father but also the Word of creation. The Logos is the ground, pattern, goal, and the source of all being. The Logos is the beginning of all creation, and as the Logos incarnate, he is the end of all creation. Primacy belongs to the Logos alone. However, how is one to conceive and express this truth? Barth denied that analogical language was capable of doing so—metaphysics could not rightly speak of God. Betz, creatively and insightfully, with the aid of the Polish philosopher-theologian, Erich Przywara, offers a valuable and constructive way forward. Metaphysical concepts and the analogical language that expresses such metaphysics can rightly be applied to the divine Word such that he can, indeed, be proclaimed Logos of creation and redemption—and so all glory, honor, and praise belongs to him." - Thomas G. Weinandy, O.F.M., Capuchin Former member of the Vatican's International Theological Commission"The work of John Betz is a gift, on the one hand to Erich Przywara, whose genius requires a unique mind and heart to be able to receive and communicate its fecund treasures, and on the other hand to us, who would otherwise have had little access to this giant of the twentieth century. But this book does more than just communicate Przywara; it develops an analogical metaphysics that is profoundly original in its own right and promises to bear fruit that will last." - C. Schindler Pontifical John Paul II Institute, The Catholic University of America"John Betz has presented us with a masterly and comprehensive argument as to why the analogy of being, updated to take account of linguistic mediation of knowledge and fully understood as including articulations of the Trinity and Incarnation, allows a mediation of current debates concerning the relation of grace to nature and faith to reason. Agree or disagree, in part or in whole, his case must now be reckoned with." - John Milbank University of Nottingham"Betz elucidates a central riddle of Christian theology with an unmatched gift for resolving dark complexity into generative lucidity." - Judith Wolfe School of Divinity, St Mary's College, University of St Andrews