Lex Christianorum

C ONFRONTED WITH THE CHRIST-EVENT, specifically, the sacrificial death of Christ on the Cross, the Christian is presented with a theodrama,...

F OR VON BALTHASAR, the Christian moral life is it its essence a participation in the relationship between the Father and the Son, the ...

W HEN WE ARE DEALING WITH person-to-person relations, there is a dynamism to be found in the encounter which distinguishes it from a person...

V ON BALTHASAR attempts to reconcile both freedom (autonomy) and obedience (to law,i.e.,  heteronomy) by focusing on the "gift" a...

I N OUR LAST POST, we addressed the important point that von Balthasar's aesthetics emphasizes the relationship feature, the communicat...

T HERE IS A TENDENCY IN MODERNS to view the artist as one who is expressive of self. This, of course, is part and parcel of modernity'...

I N VON BALTHASHAR'S view, every beautiful object that presents itself to us is both known and unknown. Nothing is without its sense o...

I N HANS URS VON BALTHASAR, the theory of aesthetics--the theory of human perception of beauty, and human response to it--is a central, if ...