Inattentive Unworldliness: Albacete, Balthasar, and “The Secularization of Interiority”
Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete and Hans Urs von Balthasar (Images taken from the Albacete Forum FB page and Wikimedia Commons) A great rock band searches for the same combustible force that fueled the expansion of the universe after the big bang, they want the earth to shake and spit fire, they want the sky to split apart and for God to pour out. - Bruce Springsteen [1] Give me a lover and he feels what I am feeling: give me one who yearns, give me one who hungers… give me one like this, and he knows what I am saying. But if I speak to one who is cold, he does not know what I am saying. - St. Augustine of Hippo [2] I apologize in advance to the reader because, for the first time, I will be starting off a blog post with a story involving a crude joke. But this is a true story, and on...
