Contemplative in the Mud

Love of our Neighbours Draws Us to Contemplation

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Benjamin Embley

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Hans Urs von BalthasarIf we love our brother, our contemplation will be rich and absorbing… If we love, we shall never turn away from contemplation; we shall thirst for it more and more.
Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905–1988)

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Benjamin Embley

With backgrounds in engineering (BSc PhD) and philosophy (MA), Ben has lived and worked in England, France, and Thailand and is now back home as a settler in the unceded traditional territory of the Wabanaki peoples in Canada. He is a Laudato Si’ Animator and currently studying an MTS Peace & Justice in Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.

4 responses to “Love of our Neighbours Draws Us to Contemplation”

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    cosmostheinlost

    I’ve been digging into von Balthasar’s incarnationalism myself:

    http://cosmostheinlost.com/2014/01/24/everything-suon-von-balthasars-miloszs-god-metaphors

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      Ben (เบ็น)

      Thanks for the tip. I normally don’t find Hans Urs von Balthasar understandable. I get lost. I’m not a trained theologian by any stretch of the imagination. But von Balthasar’s books on ‘Christian Meditation’ and ‘(Contemplative) Prayer’ I like. =)

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        cosmostheinlost

        You might also like his Heart of the World. It’s something else.

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        1. Ben (เบ็น) Avatar
          Ben (เบ็น)

          Thanks!

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