by Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection

Translated by John J. Delaney

Image Books

Writings first appeared in 1692

00:00:07 Conversations with Brother Lawrence

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00:14:48 3rd Conversation

00:19:36 4th Conversation

00:25:16 Letters

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01:17:08 Spiritual Maxims

01:19:46 Practices Necessary to Obtain the Spiritual Life

01:24:40 How We Must Adore God in Spirit and in Truth

01:26:26 Of the Union of the Soul with God

01:29:00 Of the Presence of God

01:32:56 Ways of Acquiring the Presence of God

01:36:01 The Benefits of the Presence of God

By Reuben Slife

Reuben Slife is an editor of New Polity: A Journal of Postliberal Thought.

Communio 50 (Winter 2023) © 2023 by Communio: International Catholic Review

Pgs. 735- 756

“For a Christian, it is only in trans-forming that one inherits properly, because each thing—even our suffering under mechanistic meaninglessness—becomes itself only in receiving the form of Christ.”

00:06:36 1. Was the American Founding a Sin?

00:26:37 2. What is Good About America?

00:27:33 2.1 Exterior Achievements 

00:41:25 2.2 Generosity, Religiosity, and Other Cultural Characteristics

00:44:59 2.3 Intentions

00:48:49 Final Paragraph

by Avery Dulles

Avery Dulles, S.J., is Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Theology at Fordham University, Bronx, N.Y. This article is adapted from the McGinley Lecture delivered there Sept. 28.

AMERICA October 23, 1993 Vol. 169 No. 12

00:01:45 1. The Concept of Prophetic Humanism

00:05:21 2. Human Dignity

00:13:11 3. Human Existence as Communal

00:15:15 4. The Family

00:17:33 5. The Order of Culture

00:21:53 6. The Economic Order

00:26:58 7. The Political Order

00:30:44 8. The Church

by W. Norris Clarke

Communio 19 (Winter, 1992) by Communio: International Catholic Review

"The perfection of being - and therefore of the person - is essentially dyadic, culminating in communion."

00:06:36 The Dynamic, Relational Notion of Being

00:25:18 Application to the Person

00:34:03 Receptivity as a Perfection of Being and Person

00:40:58 Objection

00:52:21 Conclusions

by John S. Grabowski

Communio 22 (Spring, 1995) by Communio: International Catholic Review

pgs. 139-163

"The mystery of the human person, created in the image of the triune God, is illumined by revelation as a being who subsists in the communion of love."

00:03:23 I. Patristic Beginnings: The Emergence of Person and Relation

00:09:58 II. Medieval Synthesis: Substance and Subsistent Relation

00:23:57 III. Modern Thought: Deeper Convergence

00:25:44 1. The Person as Subject

00:30:26 2. The Person as Dialogical

00:33:26 3. The Person as Sexual

00:36:04 4. Toward a Relational Metaphysic

00:38:42 IV. Conclusion

by Luigi Giussani

00:02:59 An Extraordinary Historical Reality

00:13:00 The Terms of this New Reality

00:19:02 Instinctive Resistance

by Luigi Giussani

00:00:10 A Premise: Education in the Morality Necessary for Understanding

00:11:19 Human Stature

00:26:00 Human Existence

00:29:15 An Awareness as Asking

00:43:54 The Law of Life

01:03:04 Conclusion

by Luigi Giussani

00:06:43 The First Dawning of Explicitness

00:10:56 A Challenge

00:23:33 The Conclusive Declaration

00:29:51 The Discretion of Freedom

by Luigi Giussani

00:09:52 The Essentials of the Pedagogy of Christ's Self-Revelation

00:15:24 For His Sake: The Core of Freedom

00:27:09 The Moment of Identification

by Luigi Giussani

00:00:21 The Itinerary of Conviction

00:07:29 a) The Discovery of an Incomparable Man

00:17:17 b) Power and Goodness

00:23:34 A Question Arises, A Certainty Breaks Forth

00:31:19 A Case of Moral Certainty