Instead, contrary to his assertions otherwise, the Girard corpus ought to be read as if it were articulating a form of theology whose primary intellectual home can ultimately be found on a theological map. This essay contends that René Girard is not a philosopher or a scientist whose ideas are open to theological appropriation. The essay also draws attention to Tomberg's innovatively irenic approach to Christian anti-Gnosticism. Both authors maintain that authentic esotericism, by contrast, is marked by radical humility and non-violence it is biblical, ecclesial, and committed to the unity of metaphysical reason and prayerful faith. Both Tomberg and von Balthasar believe that esotericism without prayer and institutional grounding can become narcissistic and self-righteous to the point of megalomania, and consequently it tends to become manipulative and coercive to the point of violence. The essay explains that both Tomberg and von Balthasar practice a rule-governed Christian esotericism whose goal is support for a fruitful ecclesial spirituality and resistance to non-ecclesial esoteric Gnosticism. It argues that von Balthasar respected and advocated this ostensibly occult text because he found its capacious understanding of Christian faith as true gnosis similar to his own. The essay examines Hans Urs von Balthasar's little-known Foreword to the Christian esoteric text, Meditations on the Tarot by Valentin Tomberg.
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