Chalcedonian Personalism. Rethinking the human

Colin Patterson

Resumen

This powerful book arises from the author’s impact with the works of Ratzinger and Von Balthasar that show him a personalist theology of great value. The author then sets out to determine the origin of this personalism (Part I) and then presents an original proposal (Part II). The title of the book is justified in the historical part in which it is indicated that the personalism generated by the theology of the Church (which is generally called Chalcedonian) was not successfully applied to the philosophical field, being recovered, many centuries later, by Ratzinger and Von Balthasar. Patterson considers that the perspective of these theologians is very valuable and faithful to the original intuitions of the Church and, for this reason, he intends to recover, promote and strengthen it. The book, therefore, is approached from a theological framework, but this does not prevent the author from showing and using a broad knowledge of the philosophical sources that affect the issues he deals with, including sources from the experimental sciences.