"Disputà del Sacramento," Raphael 1509-1510, Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican Museums, Rome. (Wikimedia Commons). “Don’t judge a book by its cover” is usually sound advice. But sometimes the cover can ...

Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Theological Aesthetics Applied to the Fiction of Flannery O’Connor confronts the grotesque beauty of Flannery O’Connor’s stories through Balthasar’s Christological aesthetics.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In Love Alone is Credible (1963), Hans Urs von Balthasar discusses love in a way that "seeks to be faithful to the theological tradition of ...

The root of the Church’s inability to adequately evangelize the Western world is that we are so full of truth and goodness that we have forgotten beauty. In that, we resemble the modern world we ...

Many people believe that Christian piety entails narrow-mindedness and that the more one affirms Christ in his particularity the more one rejects the world in its plurality. If the true Christian is, ...

Karl Rahner, S.J., (1904-84) and Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-88), are in my estimation the two most influential Catholic theologians of the 20th century. Rahner, a German Jesuit priest profoundly ...

Commentary: The Word on Fire Vatican II Collection responds to the new "rad-trad" enemies of the council. But the book's extreme centrism only deepens the problem of connecting Vatican II teaching ...