Erich Przywara’s Analogia Entis, it must be said from the outset, deserves every word of praise that it has courted in the eight decades since its publication, even if contemporary Anglophone readers are only now slowly showing up on the scene a little breathless and...
I was pleasantly surprised to see that Erich Przywara does not introduces his notion of tradition alongside the Analogia Entis’s treatment of theological metaphysics. In light of Przywara’s exchanges with Karl Barth (which John Betz’s fine introduction goes a long way...
It would be difficult, if not impossible, to give an accurate account of Erich Przywara’s notion of analogy without reference to Thomas Aquinas. Przywara himself traced the beginnings of his interest in the analogia entis to a reading of certain Thomistic texts...
The analogia entis has a PR problem. As a metaphysical principle, the analogy of being has been rejected by almost all theologians and philosophers of religion since Barth who are not Roman Catholic or associated with Radical Orthodoxy. However, if this problem was...
Erich Przywara (1889–1972) is quite dead. It is a strange decision, then, to feature a work of his at Syndicate Theology, which has spent its efforts exclusively among living authors thus far. And yet, when asked what new book I was most excited about, Analogia Entis,...
