Canonistica e teologia: problemi circa il riferimento metodologico a von Balthasar

Abstract

In the recent years, we have witnessed in the field of canonical science an unexpected attribution of methodological reference to the theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar, on the part of authors who have believed that elements not only hermeneutical but also methodological can be extracted from his philosophical-theological reflection. In the present study, two «recent» works are analysed which permit to capture efficiently what does it entail a gullible methodological reference to Disciplines whose connections with the canonical science have not been formalized sufficiently. It concerns above all the reference of the canonists to systematic theology (intellectus fidei -what the diverse theologians think-)...