{"id":138159,"date":"2025-06-28T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=138159"},"modified":"2025-06-28T07:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T11:36:14","slug":"saturday-food-for-thought-from-hans-urs-von-balthasar-1905-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=138159","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Food for Thought from Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8216;The most important act of Christian life is, however, the personal hearing of every call directed to oneself and the ability to understand it. No one else can hear my call for me. No knowledge of God and his ways can replace an attentive and obedient ear. The essence of being a Christian is to be open daily and hourly to the call of God and to let oneself be touched and guided by it.&#8217;<br><br>&#8212;<b>The Christian State of Life<\/b> (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1983 E.T. of 1977 German original), p. 435<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We can be sure that whoever sneers at [beauty] as if she were the ornament of a bourgeois past\u2014 whether he admits it or not &#8211; can no longer pray and soon will no longer be able to love.<br>\u2014 Hans Urs von Balthasar, Glory of the Lord I, 18 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TAMlpAraJx\">pic.twitter.com\/TAMlpAraJx<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Jacob Sherman (@Shermanicus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shermanicus\/status\/1931031330109735025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 6, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;The most important act of Christian life is, however, the personal hearing of every call directed to oneself and the ability to understand it. No one else can hear my call for me. No knowledge of God and his ways<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=138159\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,175,186,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-anthropology","category-church-history","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138159"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138162,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138159\/revisions\/138162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}