Distributed Like Bread: Hans Urs von Balthasar Speaks to Seminarians by Jonathan Martin Ciraulo

Distributed Like Bread: Hans Urs von Balthasar Speaks to Seminarians

By Jonathan Martin Ciraulo

About the Book

This book examines the life and writings of the theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar as they relate to priesthood. For Balthasar, a priest should make himself unreservedly available to be put in the service of God. The priest should aspire to be as common and as humble as bread, which is available to be blessed, broken, and distributed. Yet, through that availability, the bread, as well as the priest, becomes the hidden matter in which God Himself becomes present to the world and the world becomes present to God.

92 Pages

About the Author

Jonathan Martin Ciraulo is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology in St. Meinrad, Indiana. He is the author of The Eucharistic Form of God: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Sacramental Theology.