Balthasar on the Spiritual Senses

In this study, Mark McInroy argues that the ''spiritual senses'' play a crucial yet previously unappreciated role in the theological aesthetics of Hans Urs von Balthasar. The doctrine of the spiritual senses typically claims that human beings can be made capable of perceiving non-corporeal, ''spiritual'' realities. After a lengthy period of disuse, Balthasar recovers the doctrine in the mid-twenti...