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Hymn To St. Joseph (Lootens), Harold Lootens S.M. Jan 2007

Hymn To St. Joseph (Lootens), Harold Lootens S.M.

Musical Compositions about the Marianist Charism

Praise of St. Joseph


Mary Immaculate Star Of The Morning, Harold Lootens S.M. Jan 2007

Mary Immaculate Star Of The Morning, Harold Lootens S.M.

Musical Compositions about the Marianist Charism

In praise of Mary


The Descriptive Problem Of Evil, Brad Kallenberg Jan 2007

The Descriptive Problem Of Evil, Brad Kallenberg

Religious Studies Faculty Publications

Language is like the cane in the hand of the blind person. The better one becomes at getting around with the cane, the more he or she is apt to forget the cane but through the cane perceive the objects scraped and tapped by the other end. A defective cane may distort the world perceived by the blind person. So too, defective use of language threatens to muddy our understanding of the things we talk about. When discussing something as difficult as natural evils, a frequently undetected defect in our language use is “overly attenuated description.” In this piece, I …


The Aesthetic Hermeneutics Of Hans-Georg Gadamer And Hans Urs Von Balthasar, Jason Paul Bourgeois Jan 2007

The Aesthetic Hermeneutics Of Hans-Georg Gadamer And Hans Urs Von Balthasar, Jason Paul Bourgeois

Marian Library Faculty Publications

This book compares two figures that are not often associated together within the field of Roman Catholic theology, namely Hans-Georg Gadamer and Hans Urs von Balthasar. This work attempts to find deep structural affinities in the aesthetics and hermeneutics of both thinkers, as expressed through shared metaphysical and anthropological assumptions about the dialogical nature of truth and interpretation. The body of the work will be devoted to analyzing these assumptions of Gadamer and Balthasar, both individually and in comparison with each other. However, this preface is necessary to place the concerns of this book into a broader theological context.