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Hans Urs von Balthasar & Adrienne von Speyr

The Beauty of Strife & Struggle
April 2004We've noticed that people who are captivated by their notions of beauty can be inattentive to facts.
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"Beauty": An Ugly Excuse for Copping Out
June 2001Gregory Wolfe says he came to discover that modernity is more "complex" than he had thought.
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Folks, Here Are Your Orders
April 2001Was Hans Urs von Balthasar really as goofy as his fans make him sound?
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Kant Was Wrong
September 1986According to Kant, we do not look upon the world as it is, but upon an appearance of the world projected by the structures of the human mind.
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Two Special Friends of God
April 1985Von Balthasar was influential in Adrienne von Speyr’s conversion; he was her confessor, secretary and editor of her “dictations”; and her “dictations” profoundly influenced his theology.
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The Beauty of Holiness
January-February 1985The Beautiful, when it is transcendent Beauty, is more properly spoken of as Glory, a distinction which renders earthly beauty a kind of metaphor of glory, yet which robs earthly beauty of none of its dignity.
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