"We no longer dare to believe in beauty
and we make of it a mere appearance
in order the more easily to dispose of it.
Our situation today shows that beauty
demands for itself at least as much courage
and decision
as do truth and goodness,
and she will not allow herself to be separated
and banned from her two sisters
without taking them along with herself
in an act of mysterious vengeance.
We can be sure that whoever sneers at her name
as if she were the ornament
of a bourgeois past -- whether he admits it or not --
can no longer pray
and soon will no longer be able to love."
-hans urs von balthasar
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strong words
good words
thoughtful words
amen to beauty
WV: expulsi--to cast out, as in
"expulsi not beauty"
apparently i typed expulsi incorrectly
next WV: chgolsh--what is left
after beauty is expulsed
balthasar maintained that
christian coummunity is born out of
a shared desire for beauty
he attempted to start a secular christian institute dedicated to that very thing
i don't know if it ever took off or not
i think i'll be doing more posting over here
with stolen quotes
Whither Balthasar???
Those sort of cat. thinkers don't appear in the Ewe Es Eh.
We might speculate on what HUVB would have said about the ....rise of the morm.-bapt.-zion. herd. (scuzi not so PC). Iesu help us if a creature such as Romney or Bachmann gets rolling.
(hola S.)
hola J
thanks for your kind words about me
over in your comment on
bewildering search
WV: dismoto--the act of using a word incorrectly
De nada S.
Scrolling through some material related to Balthasar
I came across Franz Jaegerstaetter (wasn't the wiki. but the wi. will do guess--in mdn ger ickk denkte . they replace the umlauts with ae or ue). Not so beautiful, alas.
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