He shows how that interaction of the divine with the human reveals the meaning of true freedom that man is always hungering for but often strives after in wrong and dangerous ways. His faithvision advocates the whole instead of the part, the synthetic rather than the analytic. What you are is gods gift to you, what you become is your gift to god. Balthasar was educated in benedictine and jesuit secondary schools and went on to study in vienna, berlin, and zurich. In response, balthasar acknowledges that it is just to punish the wicked, but it is also just to spare the evildoers because it. As a young man, he had considered a career in music or literature, and he was an accomplished pianist. The office of peter and the structure of the church.
Incredibly prolific and diverse, he wrote over one hundred books and hundreds of articles. The word person receives its special dignity in history when it is illuminated by the unique theological meaning. Incredibly prolific and diverse, he wrote over one hundred books and many hundreds of articles. Along with karl rahner, balthasar is one of the most important roman catholic theologians of the 20th century.
His bibliography includes 85 separate volumes, over 500 articles and contributions to collected works, and nearly 100 translations not to mention the numerous smaller pieces and the 60 volumes of the works of. Balthasar was born in lucerne, switzerland, on 12 august 1905, to a wealthy family. He was educated first by benedictine monks at the abbey school at. Representation was for him, as karlheinmenkz e describes, a bridging concept between the im. Named a cardinal by pope john paul ii, he died shortly before being formally inducted into the college of cardinals. It is the purpose of this article to introduce some of the themes of balthasars work. Though not invited to be present at the second vatican council, balthasar was later awarded the. A journal of catholic thought and culture winter 2008. The spiritual and cultural traditions of vast regions of the west are increasingly being called into question. He reexamines the nature of christian believing, drawing widely on such theological figures as anselm, pascal and newman. Descargar libro pdf maria en nuestro tiempo ebooks catolicos. By angelo scola find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate.
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