A Story About Ambiguity It was a mistake, says Hans Urs von Balthasar, to think of saints as heroes. Those kinds of stories (Balthasar means Western heroic epics) were, in some sense, the kind available to the early church and to the medieval church, at least in terms of Hellenistic
Hans Urs von Balthasar’s reputation and theological legacy have been attacked in recent years for allegedly contributing to the declining numbers of those who take seriously Catholic faith, morals, and spiritual/sacramental practice. In my judgment, enough has been said already in Atonement, prove unfounded the facile misrepresentations of Balthasar as a
The Diary Of Hans Frank [Der Tagebuch von Hans Frank] fell by coincidence into the hands of the Americans in May 1945. Before that, it had been preserved at the University Library in Heidelberg, where the American 7th Army had set up its center for documentation. From there, by a