Tag: Hans Urs von Balthasar
The Poor You Have Always With You
Accompanying the poor or inhabiting their number, the honest among us recognize our own fundamental impoverishment. Bernanos, a father and husband who long depended on others for sustenance, inhabited the paradox of Christianity.
What You Need to Know About Hans Urs von Balthasar
This is an entry in FPR’s One Thousand Words series. Over the next few months, perhaps longer, several dozen contributors will tell us what...
The Place of Religion and Literature
Devon, PA. My talk from the annual Ciceronian Society Conference, held in joy and good company last weekend at the University of Virginia, has now been...
Sex, Eschatology, and Everyday Life
Devon, PA. I have contended that the two most vocal sources of outrage at Pope Benedict XVI's remark about the deleterious role of condoms...