Tag: Diana Fu
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the godforsaken blog is not forgotten
Try again. I was in a different place last year. It was a time when I felt I had to talk about the Sinophone women poets who were influential on the way I was thinking. It was necessary work, deep work, even, as I put them in conversation with Balthasar. I even had a whole…
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‘I am a Trappist like the trees’: The Glory of the Lord, Seeing the Form, Introduction, 5-7.
As the introduction to The Glory of the Lord winds to a close, Balthasar’s sweeping vision for revising how theology might be done through the ontological intervention of theological aesthetics comes together. Helpfully, he writes of its two dimensions toward the end: It comes at the end of what I can only describe as a…
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‘Begin again’: The Glory of the Lord, Seeing the Form, Introduction, 1-2
As Balthasar opens, the problem announces itself. It is, as Edward Said also noted later on, the problem of the beginning. The first word a theologian starts with is ‘the truth of the growing kingdom of God both as it now is in the fulness of God’s creation and also in the weakness of the…
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‘Real godforsaken rain had not fallen in years’: The Glory of the Lord, Seeing the Form, ‘Foreword’
‘The overall scope of the present work,’ Hans Urs von Balthasar writes in the foreword of The Glory of the Lord, ‘naturally remains all too Mediterranean. The inclusion of other cultures, especially that of Asia, would have been important and fruitful.’ Confessing that his ignorance would have led to a ‘superficial presentation’ and ‘dilettanitism,’ he…
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