Lex Christianorum

V ON BALTHASAR STRUGGLES to reconcile the ethical validity of the created order with the Christian particularism that comes from the dramat...

T HE CREATED ORDER (as distinguished from the order of grace) receives some attention by von Balthasar. However, von Balthasar's atten...

T HE COVENANTAL UNDERSTANDING of morality poses some problems for theologians. Perhaps the most significant is that it risks confusing the...

B OTH BALTHASAR AND DE LUBAC display an intolerance with the notion of nature in the abstract, preferring to emphasize "concrete nature...

B ALTHASAR RANKS HIMSELF WITHIN the historical range of prior efforts at defining the relationship between nature and grace. He views himse...

H ANS URS VON BALTHASAR APPEARS to have been convinced that the concept of pure nature had to be abandoned as an inadequate theological conc...

T HERE IS A TENDENCY TOWARD REDUCTIONISM of nature in Hans Urs von Balthasar's understanding of nature within the greater question the n...

C ONTINUING FROM OUR LAST POSTING with Steve A. Long's critical analysis of the Swiss Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar's m...

E VEN THE REDOUBTABLE Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar,* unquestionably one of the great Catholic theologians of the 20th century, sh...