Uniting Faith & Culture: Hans Urs von Balthasar

By |2024-08-11T18:25:44-05:00August 11th, 2024|Categories: Christianity, Communio, Culture, Faith, Featured, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Henri de Lubac, Timeless Essays|Tags: |

As one awaits renewal, the figure of Hans Urs von Balthasar and the integration of faith and culture which he achieved in his life and in his work guide wayfarers in that dark night, a beacon of light pointing the way to spiritual renewal of the culture—a light, which Balthasar himself would no doubt be [...]

Macbeth Revisited: The Decline & Fall of Friedrich Nietzsche

By |2024-03-12T20:54:17-05:00November 29th, 2023|Categories: Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri de Lubac, Joseph Pearce, Senior Contributors, William Shakespeare|

Macbeth loses his head and soul in the unknowing clouds of his own sin-deceived ego. So does Nietzsche. Far from seeing life as a quest for truth, they are left with nothing but their own bitter inquest on life, “signifying nothing”. This is the “deepest consequence” of their rejection of faith and reason. I’ve recently [...]

Whittaker Chambers’ Spiritual Journey

By |2024-03-12T20:57:42-05:00July 12th, 2021|Categories: Christianity, Communism, Culture War, Faith, Henri de Lubac, Religion|

Without a deep religious faith, Whittaker Chambers could hardly have made his stand against Communism and, in fact, almost failed to do so. “The one essential condition of human existence is that man should always be able to bow down before something infinitely great.” —Stepan Trofimvovitch, in The Possessed, by Fyodor Dostoevsky Whittaker Chambers’ Witness is the [...]

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