{"id":24756,"date":"2009-06-26T11:00:02","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/06\/hans-urs-von-balthasar-21-anni\/"},"modified":"2013-12-06T19:01:04","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T23:01:04","slug":"hans-urs-von-balthasar-21-anni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/06\/hans-urs-von-balthasar-21-anni\/","title":{"rendered":"Hans Urs von Balthasar: 21 anniv of death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/HUB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" alt=\"HUB.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/HUB-thumb-200x304.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"304\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div><!--StartFragment--><\/div>\n<p>Just two days before he was to receive the cardinal&#8217;s red\u00a0hat from Pope John Paul II (an honor he declined to accept before) the Swiss\u00a0theologian Father\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hans_Urs_von_Balthasar\">Hans Urs von Balthasar<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0died. He was preparing to celebrate\u00a0the morning Mass when the Lord called him home.<\/p>\n<p>Von Balthasar was a prolific author of articles and books. He&#8217;s widely known as the kneeling theologian, the starting point from he believed theology ought to be done. With Cardinals Henri de Lubac, Walter Kasper and Joseph Ratzinger he founded the\u00a0<strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.communio-icr.com\/\">Communio<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0journal (which is published in a numerous languages).<\/p>\n<p><i>O Lord, we pray Thee that the soul of Thy priest. Thy\u00a0servant Hans Urs von Balthassar, which, while he abode in this world, Thou\u00a0didst adorn with sacred gifts, may ever rejoice in a glorious place in heaven.\u00a0Amen.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>A short biography of Father von Balthasar can be\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasalle.edu\/~garver\/bio.htm\">read here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div>Those wanting a fine \u00a0and accessible introduction into the thinking of Hans Urs von Balthasar ought to read Jesuit Father Edward T. Oakes&#8217; book,\u00a0<i>Pattern of Redemption<\/i>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just two days before he was to receive the cardinal&#8217;s red\u00a0hat from Pope John Paul II (an honor he declined to accept before) the Swiss\u00a0theologian Father\u00a0Hans Urs von Balthasar\u00a0died. He was preparing to celebrate\u00a0the morning Mass when the Lord called him home. Von Balthasar was a prolific author of articles and books. He&#8217;s widely known &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/06\/hans-urs-von-balthasar-21-anni\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hans Urs von Balthasar: 21 anniv of death<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2006,1812],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29640,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24756\/revisions\/29640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}