This article aims at understanding Balthasar in such a way that leads him beyond himself, especially when it comes to Balthasar’s grasp of the relationship of his work to Europe and to European modernity. The danger of Balthasar’s theological aesthetics is not that it ends up being “all too” Mediterranean but that it risks succumbing to Eurocentrism. This article posits that the Balthasarian standpoint is open—in its own terms, by its own logic—to a standpoint other than Europe. That Balthasar can be opened out into a confrontation with colonial modernity is demonstrated not by placing him in direct contact with post- or de-colonial thought but by re-examining his contention that the Christ-form cannot be identified with any particular aesthetic form. That the Christ-form is not identical with any particular aesthetic form leaves open the possibility of something other than Eurocentrism within a thoroughgoing theological aesthetic.

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超越欧洲现代性的巴尔塔萨：通过其前身重新思考人性化

本文旨在以一种超越自我的方式理解巴尔塔萨，尤其是当谈到巴尔塔萨对其作品与欧洲和欧洲现代性的关系的把握时。巴尔塔萨神学美学的危险不在于它最终“太”地中海化，而在于它有屈服于欧洲中心主义的风险。本文假定巴尔塔萨里派的立场对欧洲以外的立场是开放的——就其自身而言，按照其自身的逻辑。巴尔塔萨可以与殖民现代性对抗，这不是通过让他直接接触后殖民或去殖民思想来证明的，而是通过重新审视他的论点，即基督形式不能与任何特定的美学形式等同起来。那 基督形式与任何特定的美学形式都不相同，这在彻底的神学美学中留下了除欧洲中心主义之外的其他事物的可能性。