Adrian Walker on Benedict’s Jesus of Nazareth

The current issue of Communio publishes an article by editor Adrian J. Walker, the English translator of the first volume of Pope Benedict’s Jesus of Nazareth: Living Water: Reading Scripture in the Body of Christ with Benedict XVI (pdf).

For more on Jesus of Nazareth see:

Denis Farkasfalvy. Jesus of Nazareth and the Renewal of New Testament Theology (2007) and
Roch Kereszty. The Challenge of Jesus of Nazareth for Theologians (2007)

Also by Adrian Walker:

On ‘Rephilosophizing’ Theology (2004) | ‘Rejoice always.’ How Everyday Joy Responds to the Problem of Evil (2004) | Personal Singularity and the Communio Personarum: A Creative Development of Thomas Aquinas’ Doctrine of Esse Commune (2004)  | Benedict XVI: A Co-Worker of the Truth (2005) | Love Alone: Hans Urs von Balthasar as a Master of Theological Renewal (2005) | ‘Sown Psychic, Raised Spiritual': The Lived Body as the Organ of Theology (2006) | ‘Clouds of Witnesses': Introducing Why We Need. . . (2007) | The Gift of Simplicity. Reflections on Obedience in the Work of Adrienne von Speyr. (2007)

D. C. Schindler: On Experience and Reason

D. C. Schindler (bio). On Experience and Reason, from the Summer 2010 issue.

From the text:

While the conventional contemporary view of the world conceives of thought as opposed to, or at any rate outside of, reality, the classical worldview understands thought as a deepening of the real, and therefore as a bringing of experience to fruition. From this perspective, we would say that experience becomes more truly itself the more it is truly penetrated by mind, which would make sense, of course, only if it were true to say that experience as such were in some sense intelligent from the beginning. (full text)

 

Also by D.C. Schindler:

Freedom Beyond Our Choosing: Augustine on the Will and Its Objects (2002). Surprised by Truth: The Drama of Reason in Fundamental Theology (2004). “‘Wie kommt der Mensch in die Theologie?’: Heidegger, Hegel, and the Stakes of Onto-Theo-Logy.” (2005). The Redemption of Eros: Philosophical Reflections on Benedict XVI’s First Encyclical. (2006). Truth and the Christian Imagination: The Reformation of Causality and the Iconoclasm of the Spirit. (2006). Why We Need Paul Claudel. (2007). Restlessness as an Image of God. (2007). Why Socrates Didn’t Charge. Plato and the Metaphysics of Money. (2009).

Hans Urs von Balthasar: On the Tasks of Catholic Philosophy in Our Time

From the archives:

Hans Urs von Balthasar, On the Tasks of Catholic Philosophy in Our Time (pdf, 1993).

Merry Christmas!

From the editors and staff of Communio.

Robert Spaemann at the John Paul II Institute

German philosopher Robert Spaemann will deliver the 2010 McGivney Lectures at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. next week (April 12, 14, and 16, 2010). He will speak on “Nature and Natural Law in the Present Cultural Situation: Issues Concerning the Dignity of Human Life.”  Details can be found here.

Monday, April 12: 7 pm. Human Dignity and Human Nature
Wednesday, April 14: 7 pm. The Paradoxes of Love
Friday, April 16: 4 pm. Is Brain Death the Death of a Human Person?

The John Paul II Cultural Center is located at 3900 Harewood Road in Northeast DC, next to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

Readers of Communio will already be familiar with Spaemann’s articles Rationality and Faith in God (pdf, 2005), Begotten, Not Made (pdf, 2006), When Death Becomes Inhuman (pdf, 2006) and the interview ‘An animal that can promise and forgive.’ (pdf, 2007).

As a preview of the forthcoming issue on Silence and Prayer, here is another Spaemann article for you to enjoy. First published in the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung in 2005, we make it available in English for the first time here: How Could You Do What You Did? (pdf), an examination of the concepts of shame and shamelessness.

Local readers are invited to attend the lectures, which will be held in the auditorium of the John Paul II Cultural Center. Tickets are required. Call 202-526-3799 for information and reservations.