Welcome back to the Word on Fire show.

I'm your host, Matthew Petrusig.

We are continuing our walk through Bishop Barron's lecture series

on one of the most important Catholic theologians

of the 20th century, Hans Orr's von Balthasar.

Enjoy.

So we're talking about Hans Urs von Balthazar, and to get to his thought, we have to look at this issue of the beautiful, of beauty.

So we saw last time that he was trained in Gerministe, in literature,

he was trained in music. It's the aesthetic approach. He's not a professor of philosophy,

never held a professorial chair. He begins from the standpoint of the beautiful. I mentioned, too,

the famous trilogy, right? We have the halischkite, the glory of the Lord,

you got the theodramatique and the theologic, moving from the beautiful to the good and then to the

true. Notice first how Baltazar consciously reverses Immanuel Kant's famous approach. So Kant, the greatest philosopher of modernity,

writes first the critique of pure reason

has to do with the truth,

then the critique of practical reason

has to do with the good,

and then the critique of judgment,

the beautiful.

Baltazar purposely reverses that

and puts the beautiful first.

And see, that's the key now to everything.

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