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A World without Beauty: von Balthasar, Plato, & the Ordering of the Soul - Plenary IV

By James Matthew Wilson

In a few paragraphs, the theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar diagnosed the emptiness of the modern age, an emptiness produced by the elimination of beauty as an attribute of reality. We’ll reflect on von Balthasar’s bold claims and have a look at Plato’s great “palinode” in the Phaedrus, where we see with a clarity and concision still unrivaled how and why human life is ordered by, to, and through beauty.

Presentation at 2:00pm on Saturday, January 14 in St George Cathedral Fellowship Hall

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