Belief and the Public Square

By |2024-02-25T14:13:37-06:00February 25th, 2024|Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Communio, David L. Schindler, Essential, Faith, Featured, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Religion, Timeless Essays|Tags: , , , , |

Authentic human creativity offers an image of divine creativity. Its purpose-to bring about a civilization of love to give glory to God-can only be achieved when freedom is properly understood as the received gift by the Son from the Father. For David Schindler this trinitarian economy offers the only model by which any human economy, [...]

Philosopher of Love: David L. Schindler

By |2022-02-23T09:02:15-06:00May 13th, 2013|Categories: Christianity, Communio, Culture, David L. Schindler, Essential, Featured, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Theology|Tags: , |

David L. Schindler For the orthodox Christian, is doing one’s public duty more or less reducible to voting for the most socially conservative Republican on the ballot—and then shutting up about whatever misgivings one might have? Surely not. Yet for many election cycles, this has been often implied by the self-appointed guardians of [...]

Mozart: Mirth and Freedom in The Magic Flute

By |2016-03-14T19:47:27-05:00August 2nd, 2011|Categories: Culture, Music, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Tags: |

Wolfgang Mozart Indeed no words can better be used to describe Mozart’s music than “sublime” and “natural.” Beethoven is heroic, tragic—although at the end, he too can be sublime, with the autumnal serenity of a warrior turned contemplative; Bach erects his marvelously ornate cathedrals of sound—and occasionally he too passes into a timeless [...]

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