Who was the greatest 20th Century Theologian?

[Anonymous No.10262317]

And why was it Hans Urs Von Balthasar?

[Anonymous No.10262349]

>theology

[Anonymous No.10262476]

>>10262317
My theology professor says Barth

[Anonymous No.10262534]

>>10262317
Karl Rahner, Karl Barth, Vladimer Lossky, and Martin Buber all have claims on the title. Balthasar ain't a scrub by any means, but that's some stiff competition.

[Anonymous No.10262538]

>>10262349
Why though?

[Anonymous No.10262741]

>>10262317
Both Balthasar and Rahner will be forgotten in the next 50 years because they are redundant and the answer is Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange.

[Anonymous No.10262744]

In terms of influence probably Barth.

Other contenders might be R. Niebuhr (especially for Americans) or Tillich (especially for Catholics).

[Anonymous No.10262746]

No Buber fans?

[Anonymous No.10262770]

>>10262741
How in tarnations can you say that Balthasar is "redundant?" His philosophical influences range from the patristics to Hegel (Cosmic Liturgy), and his work on theological aesthetics was groundbreaking (The Glory of the Lord). Not to mention his more practical stuff is also extremely readable and profound (Prayer).

[Anonymous No.10262872]

>>10262534
>Vladimer Lossky
Lossky Da Bossky.

[Anonymous No.10263512]

>>10262534
>>10262741
Read Balthasar's response to Heidegger, also him on Dante and aesthetics.

[Anonymous No.10263632]

Nils Runeberg, of course.

[Anonymous No.10263652]

>>10262744
Tillich was a Protestant.

[Anonymous No.10263689]

>>10262317
If they haven't read Swedenborg it's not worth bothering

[Anonymous No.10263695]

>>10262770
He's redundant because he's already on the quick road of being ignored and forgotten, he offers no hard answers or reasons to read him and recommend him to others over a number of both older and newer authors. Any Catholic hegelian philosophy that's left will whither and die within the next 20 years.

[Anonymous No.10263701]

>>10262317
Dietrich Hildebrand is by now far more influential in contemporary theological movements.

[Anonymous No.10263734]

I didn't find Balthsar or Barth very useful at all.

I found Nicolas Berdyaev and Philip Sherrard and John Romanides and Valentin Tomberg and Seraphim Rose and Frithjof Schuon much more useful and readable and enlightening. But there's no such thing as "greatest modern" theologian, there's just good and not so good.... the greatest were the medievals and early theologians closest to the apostles.