CASA

Hans Urs von Balthasar: Christlicher Stand

MONDAYS

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8:30 - 12:20

Christlicher Stand (or The Christian State of Life) is one of Balthasar's masterworks and a clear synthesis of his thoughts about the Christian's choice of a state of life according to God's will—based largely on the pedagogy of St. Ignatius of Loyola. This course will cover the second half of the book.

Theology of History according Balthasar

WEDNESDAYS

8:30 - 12:20

Through the reading of a selection of Balthasar’s texts, starting with the first edition of Theologie der Geschichte (A Theology of History), the course will highlight a strong Christocentrism in which the person of Jesus is contemplated as the foundation, as personal as it is universal, of history as a whole, in which everyone, and every Christian in particular, is invited to play a role with Him.

Selected Texts of Nietzsche's Writings

FRIDAYS

8:30 - 12:20

The course will present certain texts from Nietzsche’s writings, chosen and sorted by Balthasar according to their themes. We will therefore be led by his selection and discover how the German philosopher, "in his struggle against a secularized Christianity of a bourgeois mold, had unwittingly rediscovered some of the most genuine and disregarded values“ (from Balthasar’s Afterword).