Introduction: Love as a Form of Life
Fall 2020
Love as a Form of Life
The Pandemic: A Sacramental Reading
José Granados“It is precisely the experience of the body as the opening of the person to the world that is decisive for understanding why the Christian sacraments cannot be received virtually.”
Martha and Mary: The Double Hospitality
Jean-Louis Chrétien“Hospitality, the reception of another, presides over all, and the diversity of vocations is nothing else than the diversity of modes of hospitality rendered to God and to neighbor, who is his icon.”
Without Beginning: Human Freedom and Divine Omnipotence
Antonio López“Only because the primal ground of the mystery of God is an eternal gratuity—an unfathomable unity of being and letting-be—can there be something that is not God that is still good for it to be.”
Et verbum caro factum est: An Intro-duction to the Philosophical Life
Andrew J. Jaeger“[W]onder—the essence of the philosophical life—is a grace: a gift from another.”
Of the Love That Is for Nothing: In Honor of Ferdinand Ulrich
Stefan Oster“He who can say ‘Yes’ to the Crucified out of the depth of his heart says ‘Yes’ to a love that gives itself for free, a love that can give itself away without having to hold onto itself at all.”
Denis Farkasfalvy on the Theology of the Bible
Roch Kereszty“The word of God in the full sense of the term is not the written word in itself, but its actualization in its listeners or readers who receive the grace to participate in the eternal and uninterrupted speech of God.”
Why We Need
Why We Need Julian of Norwich
Jeremiah Barker“The act of yielding up his ‘Adamly’ soul is the human realization of the Son’s eternally eager readiness to do that which the Father wills.”
Retrieving the Tradition
Catechesis in the Patristic Tradition
Jean Daniélou“[C]atechesis is not only instruction but also an initiation into Christian mores and an incorporation into the ecclesial community.”