Hans Urs von Balthasar Essays

  • Marian Devotion in the History of the Catholic Church

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    catholic.org.tw/vntaiwan/ghvienam/kihlavag.htm. Phan, Peter C. “Mary in Vietnamese Piety and Theology.” In In Our Own Tongue: Perspective from Asia on Mission and Inculturation, 92-108. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2003. Ratzinger, Joseph Cardinal and Hans Urs von Balthasar. Mary: The Church at the Source, 27-30, 121-124. Translated by Adrian Walker. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2005. Taylor, Philip. Goddess on the Rise: Pilgrimage and Popular Religion in Vietnam, 18-37, 251-255. University of Hawaiʿi Press

  • Faith, Reason, Belief and Action

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    without reason, have a much lesser impact than when reason is involved. Society outside of the Church links itself to fact and science, so without a logical sense of reason, the faith and belief remain stagnant in the minds of the inhabitants. When Von Balthasar describes “God the Spirit[,]” as “...expound[ing] the revelation of love...,” the terminology is one more of action than contemplation.2 To expound is a word of action and movement, and the Spirit calls for the church to act in order to multiply

  • Saint Elizabeth Of The Trinity Essay

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    Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity, as Hans Urs von Balthasar writes in Two Sisters in the Spirit, “thinks only the single necessary thought for which she has space… [and that is] of the risen and glorified Kyrios [(Christ)].” The reason she is solely absorbed with the resurrected Christ is that he shows her, and the rest of humanity, how to live a life that gives Laudem Gloriae (i.e. Praises of Glory) to God. This paper will explore how Saint Elizabeth is a source of theology for the Catholic Church

  • The Visible and Invisible Church in Karl Barth and Henri De Lubac

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    Ignatius Press,1999) Hunsinger, George. Karl Barth: The Church as Witness (http://ptsm.edu/grow/Barth/church_as_witness.htm, 2000) O'Grady, Colin, M.S.C. The Church in the Theology of Karl Barth, (Cleveland: Corpus Books,1968). von Balthasar, Hans Urs. The Theology of Karl Barth, Drury, John, trans., (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1962). Weber, Otto. Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics, Cochrane, Arthur C., trans., (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1950).

  • Personal Leadership Statement: Becoming an Educational Leader

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    According to Hans Urs von Balthasar “a vocation is something lived, something enacted and a concrete life story” (Contino, 2004, p. 85). My vocational life story has developed over the past forty years with my first job at twelve babysitting six children to where I stand today teaching home economics at Chowchilla high school. “I build my own life story through the decisions of projects I undertake” and the choices I have made regarding my career path (Contino, 2004, p. 85). Someone looking from

  • Characters Symbolizing Light and Darkness

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    becoming a classic in literature. Works Cited Tolkien, J.R.R.. The Hobbit. London: HarperCollins, 2006. Print. Stoker, Bram. Dracula. New York: Penguin, 2007. Print. Morrow, Jeffrey L.. “J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis in Light of Hans Urs Von Balthasar” Renascence 56.3 (2004) : 181-196. Print.

  • Self-Revelation as Hermeneutic Principle?

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    rated as the ‘Principle of modern theology’. Despite far-reaching differences in terms of approach and development, this basic concept is shared by the most heterogeneous modern theologians, such as Karl Barth, Emil Brunner, Rudolf Bultmann, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Karl Rahner, Richard Niebuhr, Jürgen Moltmann, Eberhard Jüngel, and Wolfhart Pannenberg. A more or less balanced composite of their different approaches is part of every undergraduate introduction to contemporary theology, as articulated

  • Pope Benedict XVI Biography

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    Pope Benedict XVI: A Life and Papacy Revealed On April 19, 2005 Joseph Alois Ratzinger was elected as successor to the beloved Pope John Paul II. He was formally enthroned during the papal inauguration Mass on April 24, 2005 and chose the name of Pope Benedict XVI (Wiki P. Ben XVI bio). Elected at the age of 78 Pope Benedict XVI was the oldest to be elected Pope since Clement XII in 1730 (Wiki P. Ben XVI bio). Pope Benedict is only the eight German Pope to be elected into office the last being Adrian