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Overcoming the Evils of Ecclesial Division

REVERT'S ROSTRUM

Casey Chalk

The robust friendship of 20th-century Swiss theologians Karl Barth and Hans Urs von Balthasar offers a different approach to ecumenical dialogue.

The Beauty of Strife & Struggle

We've noticed that people who are captivated by their notions of beauty can be inattentive to facts.

In Defense of Adrienne von Speyr

REPLY TO ANNE BARBEAU GARDINER

Jacques Servais

The language used by Speyr can be called metaphorical, in the sense that it is specifically the language of sacred Scripture.

An Answer to Jacques Servais

A RESPONSE

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

We are told Speyr's books are for "meditation and adoration," not for the "use" of the scholarly. This is a false dichotomy. Speyr is not canonized, after all.

The Dubious Adrienne von Speyr

CORRECTING THE DEPOSIT OF FAITH?

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

Perhaps tied to old memories from her pre-Catholic youth, Speyr's private revelations seem to conflict with Catholic teaching on vital points.

"Beauty": An Ugly Excuse for Copping Out

Gregory Wolfe says he came to discover that modernity is more "complex" than he had thought.

Folks, Here Are Your Orders

Was Hans Urs von Balthasar really as goofy as his fans make him sound?

Kant Was Wrong

Thomas W. Case

According 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.

Two Special Friends of God

Thomas W. Case

Von 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.

The Beauty of Holiness

Raymond T. Gawronski

The 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.