Daring After Hart: Lonergan, Blondel, and Balthasar on the Problem of Human Freedom

This article reconsiders the problem of human freedom in the wake of David Bentley Hart’s That All Shall Be Saved . It renews and reasserts the crisis of every human freedom’s eternal destiny. With insights from Maurice Blondel, Bernard Lonergan, and Hans Urs von Balthasar, the article makes a case for distinctive conceptions of human freedom, divine agency, and the problem of hell. The article closes by reading Theo-Drama as a map marking places for further theological exploration.