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The German poet and cultural historian, Rudolf Borchardt (1877-1945): What they want, they cannot give.And people only give what they...

But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon...

I can’t resist sharing something that I just coincidentally happened upon in my reading this morning, from a book by...

“The anonymous medium of language can be harmed by incessant lying and thus become unsuitable for inscribing one’s personal truth...

In his reflections on Augustine’s The City of God Hans Urs von Balthasar makes the following remark, an essential one...

In Christ, writes Hans Urs von Balthasar, “God breaks forever all the ‘wisdom’ of the world by the ‘folly’ of...

For those wearied and disheartened by the corruption and dissipation of the culture formed by the biblical tradition, Balthasar calls...

In the middle of the last century, Hans Urs von Balthasar worried that the West was “preparing highly developed civilizations...

Hans Urs von Balthasar Hans Urs von Balthasar, quoting Reinhold Schneider: “Faith has set it mark on history to such...

“ becomes most visible where the secular power begins to dwindle, where earthly certainty sees decline and doom as inevitable....

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