A Short Primer for Unsettled Laymen, Second Edition

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Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1642291269
Total Pages : 145 pages
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Book Synopsis A Short Primer for Unsettled Laymen, Second Edition by : Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Download or read book A Short Primer for Unsettled Laymen, Second Edition written by Hans Urs Von Balthasar and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans Urs von Balthasar addresses the critical issues that have been unsettling the Catholic laity since the Second Vatican Council. In a clear and readable manner, he focuses on the core elements of the faith: the Word of God; the life, death, and resurrection of Christ; the sacraments; the structure of the Church; and Mary. Speaking plainly about the polarization within the Catholic Church, he also discusses the various ideological trends—such as liberalism, progressivism, and traditionalism—that have undermined the confidence and the unity of the faithful. "In this Primer, Balthasar addresses today's faithful laity who feel that [the] solidity of the Church is shifting beneath their feet. He speaks to those who fear that the Church has done what she ought not to do: that she is in fact relaxing her demands in order to win favor, not from God, but from man. Into this situation Balthasar re-proposes the'form' of Jesus Christ as revealed in his Church. This form is 'only the whole': the whole, concrete reality of Christ, conveyed within Catholic tradition. This form is 'spun from three strands' of Word, sacrament, and ecclesial authority. These three provide the Church with the ability to remain on course despite the winds blowing through history." — Angela Franks, Ph.D., From the Foreword

A Short Primer for Unsettled Laymen

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Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1621644340
Total Pages : 145 pages
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Book Synopsis A Short Primer for Unsettled Laymen by : Hans Urs von Balthasar

Download or read book A Short Primer for Unsettled Laymen written by Hans Urs von Balthasar and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans Urs von Balthasar addresses the critical issues that have been unsettling the Catholic laity since the Second Vatican Council. In a clear and readable manner, he focuses on the core elements of the faith: the Word of God; the life, death, and resurrection of Christ; the sacraments; the structure of the Church; and Mary. Speaking plainly about the polarization within the Catholic Church, he also discusses the various ideological trends—such as liberalism, progressivism, and traditionalism—that have undermined the confidence and the unity of the faithful. "In this Primer, Balthasar addresses today's faithful laity who feel that [the] solidity of the Church is shifting beneath their feet. He speaks to those who fear that the Church has done what she ought not to do: that she is in fact relaxing her demands in order to win favor, not from God, but from man. Into this situation Balthasar re-proposes the'form' of Jesus Christ as revealed in his Church. This form is 'only the whole': the whole, concrete reality of Christ, conveyed within Catholic tradition. This form is 'spun from three strands' of Word, sacrament, and ecclesial authority. These three provide the Church with the ability to remain on course despite the winds blowing through history." — Angela Franks, Ph.D., From the Foreword

Kneeling Theology

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Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813235774
Total Pages : 313 pages
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Book Synopsis Kneeling Theology by : Anton Strukelj

Download or read book Kneeling Theology written by Anton Strukelj and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anton ?trukelj, in this English edition of his book Kneeling Theology, which was published in German, Italian, Polish, Russian and Slovenian, based his theme on the concept first developed by Hans Urs von Balthasar. This Swiss intellectual is considered one of the most important theologians of the 20th century. ?trukelj sees as his task, through a synthetic survey of questions, to seek from his subjects a holistic perspective regarding the role of the theologian, without doing a critical analysis of all their work. Kneeling Theology analyzes the process and its consequences that gave rise to the religious and cultural developments of the past and the present. It is his thesis that the essence of theology should flow from holiness. He relies for his evidence on the life and work of Hans Urs von Balthasar (which included the insights of Adrienne von Speyr, physician and mystic), Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), the Slovenian theologian Anton Strle (now servant of God) and Anton Vovk, former Archbishop of Ljubljana, fearless witness of Christ and his Church, also servant of God. ?trukelj's purpose with this book is to point out that Catholic theology is best served, not only by competent research and a thorough knowledge of Church tradition, but by theologians who approach their work prayerfully and on their knees. The rich theological and pastoral heritage that has been bequeathed to us by a small group of special people in this book has come about because of their scholarship and their holiness. They have, each in their own way, demonstrated what it means to do theology on their knees, and they have shared their scholarship and insights with us.

The Cambridge Companion to Hans Urs von Balthasar

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139826808
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Hans Urs von Balthasar by : Edward T. Oakes, S. J.

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Hans Urs von Balthasar written by Edward T. Oakes, S. J. and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-05 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905–1988) is one of the most prolific, creative and wide-ranging theologians of the twentieth century who is just now coming to prominence. But because of his own daring speculations about the meaning of Christ's descent into hell after the crucifixion, about the uniqueness of Christ as savior of a pluralistic world, and because he draws so many of his resources for his theology from literature, drama, and philosophy, Balthasar has never been an easily-categorized theologian. He is neither liberal nor conservative, neither Thomist nor modernist and he seems to elude all attempts to capture the exact way he creatively reinterprets the tradition of Christian thought. For that reason, this Companion is singularly welcome bringing together a wide range of theologians both to outline and to assess the work of someone whom history will surely rank someday with Origen, John Calvin, and Karl Barth.

Another Sort of Learning

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Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1681490412
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (814 download)

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Book Synopsis Another Sort of Learning by : James V. Schall

Download or read book Another Sort of Learning written by James V. Schall and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noting the widespread concern about the quality of education in our schools, Schall examines what is taught and read (and not read) in these schools. He questions the fundamental premises in our culture which do not allow truth to be considered. Schall lists various important books to read, and why.

Pro Ecclesia Vol 20-N4

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442229268
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Book Synopsis Pro Ecclesia Vol 20-N4 by : Pro Ecclesia

Download or read book Pro Ecclesia Vol 20-N4 written by Pro Ecclesia and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pro Ecclesia is a quarterly journal of theology published by the Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology.

The New Catholic Feminism

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134417934
Total Pages : 348 pages
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Book Synopsis The New Catholic Feminism by : Tina Beattie

Download or read book The New Catholic Feminism written by Tina Beattie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is hard to over-estimate the challenge that feminism poses to Roman Catholicism. Pope John Paul II's call for a 'new feminism' has led to the development of a Catholic theological response to the so-called 'old feminism'. The New Catholic Feminism sets up a dramatic encounter between the orthodox Catholic establishment and contemporary critical theory, including feminist theology and philosophy, queer theory, and French psycholinguistics, in order to explore fundamental questions about human identity, personhood and gender. From the naked bodies of Eden to the 'gay nuptials' of liturgy, it argues that the strange and volatile world of Catholic sexual symbolism cannot be 'tamed' to meet the ideological agendas of either feminist theology or conservative Catholicism. Only through a radical re-evaluation of the sacramental significance of the sexed human body might the Catholic Church provide a redemptive response to the sexual politics of contemporary society.

New Catholic Feminism

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Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415301473
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis New Catholic Feminism by : Tina Beattie

Download or read book New Catholic Feminism written by Tina Beattie and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having confronted the conflict between feminism and the Vatican and Pope Benedict XVI, Beattie proposes a new theological approach to the encounter between feminism and Catholicism, for the twenty-first century"--Jacket.

God's Mother, Eve's Advocate

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826455638
Total Pages : 254 pages
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Book Synopsis God's Mother, Eve's Advocate by : Tina Beattie

Download or read book God's Mother, Eve's Advocate written by Tina Beattie and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2002-09-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of Beattie's book, on the theology of woman, is to discern the place of the female body in the Christian story of salvation and she has done so from the very heart of Christian stylisations of the female - the figures of Mary and Eve.

Culture and the Thomist Tradition

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134405820
Total Pages : 248 pages
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Book Synopsis Culture and the Thomist Tradition by : Tracey Rowland

Download or read book Culture and the Thomist Tradition written by Tracey Rowland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomism's influence upon the development of Catholicism is difficult to overestimate - but how secure is its grip on the challenges that face contemporary society? Culture and the Thomist Tradition examines the crisis of Thomism today as thrown into relief by Vatican II, the twenty-first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church. Following the Church's declarations on culture in the document Gaudium et spes - the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World - it was widely presumed that a mandate had been given for transposing ecclesiastical culture into the idioms of modernity. But, says Tracey Rowland, such an understanding is not only based on a facile reading of the Conciliar documents, but was made possible by Thomism's own failure to demonstrate a workable theology of culture that might guide the Church through such transpositions. A Thomism that fails to specify the precise rôle of culture in moral fomration is problematice in a multicultural age, where Christians are exposed to a complex matrix of institutions and traditions both theistic and secular. The ambivalence of the Thomist tradition to modernity, and modern conceptions of rationality, also impedes its ability to successfully engage with the arguments of rivial traditions. Must a genuinely progressive Thomism learn to accomodate modernity? In opposition to such a stance, and in support of those who have resisted the trend in post-Conciliarliturgy to mimic the modernistic forms of mass culture, Culture and the Thomist Tradition musters a synthesis of the theological critiques of modernity to be found in the works of Alasdair MacIntyre, scholars of the international 'Communio' project and the Radical Orthodoxy circle. This synthesis, intended as a post-modern Augustinian Thomism, provides an account of the rôle of culture, memory and narrative tradition in the formation of intellectual and moral character. Re-evaluating the outcome of Vatican II, and forming the basis of a much-needed Thomist theology of culture, the book argues that the anti-beauty orientation of mass culture acts as a barrier to the theological virtue of hope, and ultimately fosters despair and atheism.

A Trinitarian Anthropology

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Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 081322697X
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Book Synopsis A Trinitarian Anthropology by : Michele M. Schumacher

Download or read book A Trinitarian Anthropology written by Michele M. Schumacher and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2014-11-10 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Schumacker systematically exposits the Trinitarian theological anthropology of von Speyr, as it emerges through her vast corpus, in parallel with a development of the same theme in Balthasar's work. ... Finally, the volume exposits Aquinas's own doctrine on theological discourse, in view of initiating a dialogue wiwth his disciples." -- publisher's description.

The Meaning of the World Is Love

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Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1642292109
Total Pages : 230 pages
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Book Synopsis The Meaning of the World Is Love by : Richard Clements

Download or read book The Meaning of the World Is Love written by Richard Clements and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2022-05-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905–1988), a prolific Catholic theologian from Switzerland, has been called a "new Father of the Church". His work—shaped not only by traditional theology and philosophy, but by literature, art, and music—made an impact on both Saint John Paul II and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. Aidan Nichols, O.P., describes Balthasar's fifteen-volume masterwork, the Trilogy, as "perhaps the high-point of twentieth-century Catholic theology". Yet for all Balthasar's brilliance, the core of his theology is extraordinarily simple: love—for God is love. Love lies at the center of life, indeed, at the center of being itself. For Balthasar, the answers to all of man's big, existential questions revolve around love. The Meaning of the World Is Love, compiled by psychologist Richard Clements, brings Balthasar's meditations to a wider audience, using brief excerpts from the theologian to walk readers through the landscape of divine love, which is our home. The path of love is the path of self-gift—as well as of truth, goodness, and beauty—and it is the only way to genuine fulfillment. Balthasar, as Clements shows, can point us to the very heart of reality: God, who gives himself to us without reserve.

The Marketplace Annotated Bibliography

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Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 145873210X
Total Pages : 458 pages
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Book Synopsis The Marketplace Annotated Bibliography by : Pete Hammond

Download or read book The Marketplace Annotated Bibliography written by Pete Hammond and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every workday millions of Christians enter the marketplace. Whether as sales associates or engineers, auto mechanics or executives, Christians are called to serve God in the workplace. But most need help integrating faith and work. How can you be salt and light on the job? Where can you turn for help in developing a biblical and satisfying view ...

The Day Is Now Far Spent

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Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1642290904
Total Pages : 351 pages
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Book Synopsis The Day Is Now Far Spent by : Robert Sarah

Download or read book The Day Is Now Far Spent written by Robert Sarah and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Cardinal Sarah calls The Day Is Now Far Spent his most important book. He analyzes the spiritual, moral, and political collapse of the Western world and concludes that "the decadence of our time has all the faces of mortal peril." A cultural identity crisis, he writes, is at the root of the problems facing Western societies. "The West no longer knows who it is, because it no longer knows and does not want to know who made it, who established it, as it was and as it is. Many countries today ignore their own history. This self-suffocation naturally leads to a decadence that opens the path to new, barbaric civilizations." While making clear the gravity of the present situation, the cardinal demonstrates that it is possible to avoid the hell of a world without God, a world without hope. He calls for a renewal of devotion to Christ through prayer and the practice of virtue.

Catholicism in Crisis

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Total Pages : 628 pages
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What Does It Mean to Be Catholic?

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Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802872662
Total Pages : 238 pages
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Book Synopsis What Does It Mean to Be Catholic? by : Jack Mulder Jr.

Download or read book What Does It Mean to Be Catholic? written by Jack Mulder Jr. and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the Catholic faith for those who are curious to know more about Catholicism. For readers who have ever wondered what exactly the Roman Catholic Church teaches about predestination, original sin, the Virgin Mary, abortion, same-sex marriage, and other issues, the author explains all that and more in simple language.-- From the publisher.

Balthasar

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Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467436429
Total Pages : 152 pages
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Book Synopsis Balthasar by : Karen Kilby

Download or read book Balthasar written by Karen Kilby and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enormously prolific Swiss Roman Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988) was marginalized during much of his life, but his reputation over time has only continued to grow. He was said to be the favorite theologian of John Paul II and is held in high esteem by Benedict XVI. It is not uncommon to hear him referred to as the great Catholic theologian of the twentieth century. In Balthasar: A (Very) Critical Introduction Karen Kilby argues that although the low regard in which Balthasar was held from the 1950s to 1960s was not justified, neither is the current tendency to lionize him. Instead, she advocates a more balanced approach, particularly in light of a fundamental problem in his writing, namely, his characteristic authorial voice -- an over-reaching "God's eye" point of view that contradicts the content of his theology.