'Beauty will save the world': The beauty of being and Christological anthropology in Ferdinand Ulrich's Homo

我提出一种神学人类学，通过探索美学的形而上学描述与费迪南德·乌尔里希的《深渊人》（1961）之间的共鸣，这是一部在英语学术中被严重忽视的开创性文本。我认为乌尔里希的思想提出了一种“美的本体论”，这在神学、哲学、人类学及其各种联系方面都是卓有成效的。我将探讨“美”是人类理性及其在基督教神学中实现的关键认识论范畴的假设，此外，人类的使命是对定义真正人类生活的美的沉思回应，并从所有生物的内心呼唤。

I propose a theological anthropology through an exploration of the resonance between metaphysical accounts of beauty and Ferdinand Ulrich's Homo Abyssus (1961), a seminal text gravely neglected in Anglophone scholarship. I propose Ulrich's thought suggests an 'ontology of beauty' which is significantly fruitful in relation to theology, philosophy, anthropology, and their various connections. I will explore the hypothesis that 'beauty' is a crucial epistemological category for human reason and its fulfilment in Christian theology, and, furthermore, that the human vocation is a contemplative response to the beauty that defines truly human living and calls from the heart of all beings.