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Article: Von Balthasar in the ascendant.(The Word From Rome)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- December 12, 2003
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In Philosophy 101 one learns that all of Western thought, in a certain sense, can be divided into followers of Plato and of Aristotle. Likewise, the basic options in Roman Catholic theology after the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) can be expressed in terms of a choice between two German-speaking sons of Ignatius Loyola: Karl Rahner and Hans Urs von Balthasar.
If the Rahnerians held the upper hand for the first 20 years, the Balthasarians dominate today, at least in terms of official church teaching and policy.
Rome in the last month has offered unmistakable evidence of the point, from a consistory in which two more disciples of von Balthasar entered ...