Lonergan and Balthasar

Robert Doran remarked that Bernard Lonergan and Hans Urs von Balthasar are more in tune than many theologians thought possible during their own life-times. This course explores those areas of convergences as well as crucial differences in their work. From a focus on conversion and the reality of Christ we shall move to a detailed consideration of their Trinitarian foci. Here, the centrality of love both at the heart of the Trinity and as a core of the human condition is a possible substantial area of convergence. For both Lonergan and Balthasar becoming a human subject in love with God changes everything.