The Balthasar Booth is a virtual exhibit devoted to the life and work of Hans Urs von Balthasar. The exhibit is hosted on the Wipf and Stock Blog and includes a set of interviews with Balthasar scholars, as well as a selection of Wipf and Stock’s books by and about HUVB. You can find the link to the booth below.

Dr. Anne M. Carpenter is a professor of theology at Saint Mary’s College of California and the author of Theo-Poetics: Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Risk of Art and Being. 

In our interview, Professor Carpenter and I discuss Hans Urs von Balthasar, particularly in relation to poetry, Orientalism, Heidegger, Thomism, and theological risk-taking, to name a few conversation points.

Apologies for the glitches and poor sound quality in parts of the episode. We are actively working to strengthen WiFi signals and microphone quality.

PODCAST LINKS:

The Balthasar Booth: https://wipfandstock.com/blog/2022/08/02/the-balthasar-booth/

Blog post: https://wipfandstock.com/blog/2022/08/01/to-dare-being-anne-m-carpenter-on-hans-urs-von-balthasar/

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SOURCES MENTIONED:

Balthasar, Hans Urs von. Apokalypse der deutschen Seele. 3 vols.

———. Explorations in Theology. 5 vols. 

———. The Glory of the Lord: A Theological Aesthetics. 7 vols. 

———. Mysterium Paschale: The Mystery of Easter.

———. Theo-Logic. 3 vols. 

Brown, Joshua R. Balthasar in Light of Early Confucianism. 

Carpenter, Anne M. Nothing Gained Is Eternal: A Theology of Tradition. 

———. Theo-Poetics: Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Risk of Art and Being. 

Kerr, Fergus. “Balthasar and Metaphysics.” In The Cambridge Companion to Hans Urs von Balthasar, edited by Edward T. Oakes, SJ, and David Moss. 

O’Regan, Cyril. Anatomy of Misremembering: Von Balthasar’s Response to Philosophical Modernity. 

Rilke, Rainer Maria. “Lament.” The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke. 

OUTLINE:

(01:31) - Balthasar's Ideological and Methodological Elusiveness

(02:59) - Balthasar, Orientalism, and the Far East

(04:59) - Starting Points for Reading Balthasar

(06:46) - Theo-Logic v. 3

(08:15) - Writing Poetry

(12:05) - Thomist Metaphysics and Poetic Theology

(16:05) - Heidegger and Rilke

(24:13) - Heideggerian Thomism

(28:55) - Twining Metaphysics, Language, and Christology

(32:51) - The Risk of Art and Being

(39:24) - Lonergan, Balthasar, Blondel, Peguy, and Black Theology