Here's the latest comment on a post that demonstrated heavy use of weasel words to suggest a conclusion unwarranted by evidence to advance the author's ideology in the name of critiquing Balthasar's ideology. ... What’s this, Halden, a “Petrine symphony� is what Balthasar’s book is all about...

[cross post from Deep Furrows, originally posted 11/11/2007. It relates both the the Pauline dimension of the Catholic Church lately discussed here as well as to the question of charisms in lay movements...] Charisms are given for the whole Church 68 - If charisms are exclusively personal, they can...

At Inhabitatio Dei, Halden takes up a reading of Balthsar which sees the Petrine mission in the Church as having priority over the Pauline, Johannine, and Marian traditions. This reading construes the Petrine as normative and the others as exceptions.  The Petrine certainly has its place, but Chris...

Very absorbed of late in a book about the theology of 7th-cent. Byzantine monk, Maximus the Confessor, by Urs von Balthasar (I love that name). Title translated as Cosmic Liturgy. This reading has a lot to do, actually, with the confidence with which I proclaim the theoretical foundations of AIEE! P...

Balthasar is an inherently pluralistic or symphonic theologian. Thus, the Pauline tradition is complemented by the Petrine, the Johannine and the Marian traditions (352-365). Balthasar's reading in these sections is profoundly both scriptural and ecclesial. What's fascinating about the Pauline tradi...

As I mentioned several posts ago, this semester I was introduced to Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar in my reading of contemporary theology of the Trinity. Balthasar was a creative thinker, an engaging writer, and a brilliant theologian. Though Balthasar's training was in literature rather...

PROBABLE FACT The Three Magi were kings Here are my thoughts on our heavenly intercessors the three magi, Sts. Gaspar, Melchior, and Balthasar. The point of this post is to discuss whether the three magi were actually royal/kings, and if I am way off please do not hesitate to correct me! I believe t...

Mark at Reason in the Light of Faith remembers the Balthasar controversy from First Things: FIRST THINGS Moment of 2007. A couple of things were curious about this debate: Did David Schindler weigh in on it? Or Fr. Garownski? Or Juan Sara? Nobody mentions Origen's devotion to the kenosis of the Logo...

More broadly, Griffiths sheds light on the difficulty we all face as the generation after the generation after Vatican II. For a long time now, critique has reigned supreme, and “orthodoxy� has been an empty standard in academic theology. Alyssa Lyra Pitstick’s trenchant analysis of Hans Urs v...

This fine book , published by Ignatius Press, is a collection of a series of addresses and writings by both then-Cardinal Ratzinger and Hans Urs von Balthasar on the subject of Mary, particularly in reference to her as an image and icon of the Church. As we are reminded by Cdl. Ratzinger, proper mar...