Key Texts

CENTRAL TEXTS
  • Hans Urs von Balthasar, The Glory of the Lord: A Theological Aesthetics (1961-1969)
  • Originally published as: Herrlichkeit: Eine theologische Ästhetik, 3 vols., Einsiedeln, Switzerland: Johannes Verlag, 1961-1969. Published in English in seven volumes by Ignatius Press, San Francisco, which offers a useful introduction to von B here.
  • M. C. D'Arcy, The Mind and Heart of Love: Lion and Unicorn, Henry Holt & Company, 1947.
  • Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1669.
  • Joseph Card. Ratzinger, "The Beauty and Truth of Christ," Address to Communion and Liberation Meeting, Rimini, 24-30 August 2002; printed in L'osservatore Romano, Weekly Edition in English, 6 November 2002, p. 6. Available here.
  • Joseph Card. Ratzinger, The Spirit of the Liturgy, San Francisco: Ignatius, 2000.

SECONDARY TEXTS
  • St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions, c. 390.
  • Plato's Dialogues, esp. Phaedrus, Symposium, and Republic, c. 370 B.C.
  • Francis Thompson, "The Hound of Heaven," 1893.
  • Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, 1945.

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