Hans Urs von Balthasar on Mystical Theology and “The Metaphysics of the Saints”
Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, ILTo view photos of the master class, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. Open to current students and faculty. Copies of the readings will be provided for registrants. Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905–1988) was one of the most prolific and controversial Catholic theologians of the twentieth century. Responses to his work have ranged from the effusive to the dismissive. Instead of favoring any such one-sided judgments, however, I invite participants in this seminar to focus on two tasks that require considerably more scholarly effort. First, there is the task simply of understanding Balthasar—that is, making sense of his claims, their historical...