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Articles from 1980-1989

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Hans Urs von Balthasar

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Title

Year

Thoughts on the Unity of Theology

1980

He Who Sees Me Sees the Father. Radio Homily on 24 May

1981

The Wager of the Secular Institutes

1981

Unity and Diversity in New Testament Theology

1983

The Place of Happiness

1983

The Mystery of Christmas

1983

“Exalted Above All Powers”

1984

Culture and the Cross

1984

God’s Omnipotence

1984

Revista Católica Internacional Communio 6 (Madrid, 1984), 198–205

The Fifth Sunday of Easter (1 Cor 15:14-19). Radio Homily on 20 Mary

1984

A Hundred Questions for Balthasar

1984

The Lord is Good, and the Work of his Hands is Holy

1985

The Holy Church and the Eucharistic Sacrifice

1985

Humanity as Prayer

1986

Is the Crucified “Blessed”?

1987

Communio Revista Católica Internacional 9 (Madrid, 1987), 100–102 (tr. revisada para esta edición electrónica)

On True and False Care. Homily on Luke 12:13-21 (3 August)

1980

Christ Died for Our Sins. Radio Homily on the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

1981

Woman: Synaogue – Mary – Church

1981

The Dignity of Woman

1982

Revue catholique internationale Communio 7/4 (Paris, 1982), 24–30

The Rejection of Jesus in His Own Country. Radio Homily on 23 January

1983

Basic Christological Questions

1983

God and the Drama of the World

1983

Revue catholique internationale Communio 36/1-2 (Paris, 2011), 159–170

And Absurd Message?. God’s Incarnation and World History

1984

Christ’s Gift and the Eucharistic Sacrifice

1985

What is Liberation Theology Good for?

1986

Thank You, My God, for Your Good Friday

1986

On the Question of “Hope for All”

1986

The Unity of the Old and New Covenants

1987

The Salvific Wound

1987

Mary, the Church’s Immaculate Memory

1987

Mary in Our Time

1987

In Memory of Albert Schilling

1987

Catholicism and the Communion of Saints

1988

Witness and Credibility

1988

Creation and Trinity

1988

Communio Revista Católica Internacional 10 (Madrid, 1988), 185–191 (traducción revisada para esta edición electrónica)

Prayer to Receive the Holy Spirit

1988

Good Friday. Radio Homily on 4 April

1980

Experiencing the Absence of God

1980

From the Theology of God to Theology in the Church

1981

Revista Católica Internacional Communio 3 (Madrid), 374–385 [trad. ligeramente modificada para esta edición digital]

Friendship Among the Saints

1982

The Parable of the Good Samaritan. Radio Homily

1983

The Permanent Relevance of Redemption. On the Significance of Confession as the Central Sacrament

1983

The Mystery of Death

1983

The Unity of the Theological Virtues

1984

The Descent Into Hell

1984

Jesus as Child and His Praise of the Child

1985

Life and Institution in the Church

1985

Peter and the Pilars of the Church

1985

“A Pope Fed on Prayer for This Offended and Wounded Church”. A Conversation Between Messori and Balthasar

1985

A Christian Reflection on Death and Love. A Dialogue on Faith and the Destiny of the World with Renato Farina

1986

Dear Friends of the North American Communio

1987

The Anti-roman Epidemic

1988

The Church is Communion

1980

“Who Gave Himself Up for Me” (Gal 2:20)

1980

Nouvelle Revue Théologique 145/1 (2023), 42 – 65

Beyond Death

1981

Three Forms of Serenity

1981

Man Is Created. Explorations in Theology V. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2014 (Reprinted with the kind permission of Ignatius Press)

Earthly Beauty and Divine Glory

1982

Communio International Catholic Review 10 (Washington, Fall 1983), 202–26

Revue catholique internationale Communio 7/6 (Paris, 1982), 4–8

Should Faith or Theology be the Basis of Catechesis?

1983

Revista Católica Internacional Communio 5 (Madrid, 1983), 102–108

Short Catechesis on Hell

1984

Adrienne von Speyr (1902-1967). Participation in the Passion and Godforsakenness

1985

Let us Follow this Message

1985

Can We Define Being Christian?

1985

The Kingdom of God and the Church

1986

On the Concept of Person

1986

Augustine Did not Rest in God

1986

Mary in our Time

1987

Editorial: The Meaning of the Communion of Saints

1988

Our Lady in Monasticism

1988

La Scala. Rivista di spiritualità dei benedettini di Noci LVII (5 v.2003), 181–185. Anche in G. Meiattini, Monachesimo e teologia. La triplice prospettiva di H.U. von Balthasar. Collana Balthasariana. Lugano: Eupress FTL, 2012, 155–158

Judgment

1980

Escape into the Community

1980

Corpus Christi. Radio Homily on 5 June

1980

All Ways Lead to the Cross

1980

“Exalted Above All Powers”

1980

First Glance at the Teaching of Saint Catherine of Siena

1980

“The Unity of the Christian Faith”

1980

Monastica 39/3 (Civitella S. Paolo, 1998), 5–21

Towards a Christian Theology of Hope

1981

Theology and Aesthetics

1981

Homily on Matt 25:1-13. Radio Homily on 8 November

1981

The “Beatitudes” and Human Rights

1981

Revista Católica Internacional Communio 3 (Madrid, 1981), 591–603. Traducción revisada para esta edición digital.

The Way Knows Us

1982

Mary and the Spirit

1983

Prayer for Communio

1983

Prayer and Technique

1984

If Christ Were No Longer a Scandal or a Folly for Men and Peoples

1984

The Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time (Matt 16:21-27). Radio Homily on 2 September

1984

Toward a Theology of Christian Prayer

1985

Revue catholique internationale Communio 10/4 (Paris, 1985), 7–20

I Show You a Great Mystery

1985

Meet Hans Urs von Balthasar. An Interview by Marcel Brisebois

1985

The Human Things that Make Us Understand God. Interview with Gerard Leclerc

1986

Editorial [on the issue devoted to “Unity in the Church”

1987

Editorial. Sanctity, Crisis, Theological Renewal

1987

“Who Am I?”

1988

Applause for the Creator

1988

I predict Persecution

1988

The Unity of the Church and the Kingdom of God

1980

Crucifixus etiam pro nobis

1980

The Theologian’s Craft: Servant of the Church

1980

A New Theory of Jesus as “Scapegoat”

1980

Experience of God?

1980

The Bishop and His Seminary

1980

The Concept of Beauty in Theology

1981

Epiphany . Radio Homily on 3 January

1982

“Death is Swallowed up by Life”

1982

The “Beatitudes” and Human Rights

1982

The Word of God is Never Tired. Radio Homily on the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

1982

The Way to the Father is No Detour. Radio Homily on the Nineteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time

1982

The Youthfulness of Jesus

1983

The Eternal Child of the Father.. He Who Makes Himself Small is the Greatest

1983

The Spiritual Legacy of Sister Mary of the Holy Trinity [Louisa Jacques]

1984

God’s Judgments in the Apocalypse

1985

Revista Católica Internacional Communio 7 (Madrid, 1985), 55–61

An Outline of Eschatology

1985

Two Ways Towards God. For an Ignatian Synthesis

1986

Man Is Created. Explorations in Theology V. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2014 (Reprinted with the kind permission of Ignatius Press)

A Phenomenon Unforeseen but Awaited. Lay Movements in Today’s Church

1986

Trenta Giorni 4/3 (1986), 54–55

The Spirit as an “Uncreated Gift” to the World

1986

The Holy Spirit – An Unfathomable Mystery of Our Faith?

1986

What I Owe Goethe. Lecture on the Occasion of Receiving the Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Prize

1987

Guerriero, Elio. Hans Urs von Balthasar. Cinisello Balsamo: Edizioni Paoline, 1991, 395–400 [trad. modificata]

Theology and Holiness

1987

Communio Revista Católica Internacional 9 (Madrid, 1987), 486–493 (tr. revisada para esta edición digital)

Integralism Today

1988

A Résumé of My Thought

1988

Communio International Catholic Review 15 (Washington, Winter 1988), 468–473 (modified translation)

Does Jesus Enlighten the Heart?

1980

God Becomes Man

1980

Another Ten Years – 1975

1980

Remembering Paul Claudel

1981

The Anti-Roman Attitude

1981

Approaches to Christology

1982

Love Comes Down “From Above”

1982

Our Death in Christ’s Death. Ash Wednesday Lecture for Artists

1983

Luke 15:4-7. Radio Homily on 11 September

1983

The Body Given

1983

Meditation. The Destiny of the World

1983

The Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Matt 6:31-34). Radio Homily on 26 February

1984

Transcendentality and Gestalt

1984

Thoughts on the Passion of Christ

1984

Eternal Time in Eternal Time

1984

Jesus and Forgiveness

1984

Revista Católica Internacional Communio 6 (Madrid, 1984), 402–413

Distinctively Christian Prayer

1985

Journey in the Post-Conciliar World

1985

What is a Layman?

1985

Communio Revista Católica Internacional 7 (Madrid, 1985), 500–505

Strumento internazionale per un lavoro teologico Communio 83/84 (Milano, 1985), 4–11

Peace in Theology

1985

The Meaning of Christ’s Saying “I Am the Truth”

1987

Communio International Catholic Review 14 (Washington, Summer 1987), 158–160 [1st part]. 2nd part, translated for this digital edition, from: Was bedeutet das Wort Christi: “Ich bin die Wahrheit”?, in: Internat. kath. Zeitschrift Communio 16 (Köln, 1987), 351–356

Communio Revista Católica Internacional 9 (Madrid, 1987), 292–294 (primera parte); segunda parte traducida del alemán por Antonio Murcia para esta edición digital

Apocatastasis

1988

Prayer for “Communio”

1989

The Break and the Bridge Between the Public Ministry and the Passion in the Life of Jesus

1980

The First-born of the New World

1983

Adrienne von Speyr and Confession

1983

Il Nuovo Areopago. Rivista trimestrale di cultura 2/3 (Roma, 1983), 218–224

Nouvelle Revue Théologique 107/3 (1985), 394–403

Hans Urs von Balthasar and Giovanni Testori: Two Masters in Dialogue About Our Times

1983

Mary – Archetype of the Church. On the Apparitions of the Mother of the Lord

1983

The Sources of My Existence

1983

How Freedom and Justice Flow for Us from the Trinity

1984

The Community of Saint John

1985

A Sacrifice That Costs Nothing?

1985

Christ, the Light of the Pagans

1985

Adrienne von Speyr. A Lived Theology

1984

In Support of a Courageous Cardinal. Balthasar on Ratzinger

1985

God is His Own Exegete

1986

Communio International Catholic Review 13 (Washington, Winter 1986), 280–287

Communio Revista Católica Internacional 8 (Madrid, 1986), 7–12

The Poverty of Christ

1986

Communio Revista Católica Internacional 8 (Madrid, 1986): Bienaventurados los pobres, 450–452

Christ: The Fact Among All Facts

1987

Can We Resist Love?

1987

Meditations on the Creed

1988

Buddhism – An Approach to Dialogue

1988

Christology and Moral Theology

1982

Revue d’éthique et de théologie morale 318 (3 2023), 91–99 (avec l’aimable autorisation du traducteur)

Witness and Credibility (II)

1988

Communio Revista Católica Internacional 10 (Madrid, 1988), 109–113 (tr. ligeramente revisada para esta edición digital)

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