Introduction: Being as an Image of Divine Love: A Symposium on Homo Abyssus
Spring 2019
Being as an Image of Divine Love: A Symposium on Homo Abyssus
Receiving the Gift of Being: Ferdinand Ulrich and the Work of the John Paul II Institute
Antonio López“[N]ot only the individual, but precisely the communion between human persons is that for the sake of which being is personally given by God.”
Freely to Give: Ferdinand Ulrich as Teacher and Spiritual Father
Stefan Oster“As a dialogical being, man has always, from the beginning, arrived at himself from the other.”
The Light of the Gift in Homo Abyssus
Marine de la Tour“Being is the unity of creation and its mobility, its fecundity, and its life.”
Ferdinand Ulrich’s “Metaphysics as Reenactment”
Martin Bieler“Only from the encounter with another human being can a human being return to himself and grasp himself as being a gift mediated through the ontological difference.”
The Word as the Center of Man’s Onto-Dramatic Task
D. C. Schindler“[T]here is no more decisive expression of the dominion of the world entrusted to man than the task of saying things in an adequate way that does justice to their essence and gratuitously, mercifully, elevating them to a mode of existence not given in their essence alone.”
Being as Image of Divine Love: Between Ferdinand Ulrich and G. W. F. Hegel
William Desmond“The otherness of the finite as good is consolidated, affirmed in the primal ‘It is very good.’”
The Analogia Entis in Erich Pryzwara and Ferdinand Ulrich: Toward a More Catholic Metaphysics
John Betz“Can one even understand Christianity before being awakened to the mystery of being, and to the question of one’s own existence?”
Plenitudo Fontalis: Love’s Groundless Yes and the Grateful Originality of Nature
Erik van Versendaal“It is no embarrassment to respond.”
Thinking the “Nothing” of Being: Ferdinand Ulrich on Transnihilation
Rachel M. Coleman“Being’s nonsubsistence . . . is precisely what allows it to transform distance into intimacy.”