Life in the Trinity: A Catholic Vision of Communion and Deification
Life in the Trinity: A Catholic Vision of Communion and Deification

Author: Philip Krill

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-08-28

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1483473805

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Inspired by the ressourcement theology of Henri de Lubac, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and Pope Benedict XVI, LIFE IN THE TRINITY is a modest attempt to advance a neo-patristic synthesis crucial to the renewal of the Catholic Faith in our times. Drawing on the early Church Fathers, as well as the personalism of Pope John Paul II, LIFE IN THE TRINITY presents Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as the source, goal, and archetype of human love, and the wellspring of liturgical worship. It furnishes us with a Catholic vision of communion and deification, inspiring hope for the 21st century.

Listening to the Fathers:
Listening to the Fathers:

Author: Philip Krill

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2020-09-14

Total Pages: 772

ISBN-13: 1728372593

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LISTENING TO THE FATHERS: A Year of Neo-patristic Reflections is a day-by-day prayer journey based on selections from the Early Church Fathers. In this book of prayers, Philip Krill, whose personal mission is ‘to promote a Trinitarian vision of deification and contemplative prayer,’ seeks to introduce the reader to the Fathers’ vision of divinization in Christ and the universally salvific impact of His Incarnation. It is also his hope that those who pray with these texts will enter more deeply into contemplative prayer.

Le Point Vierge
Le Point Vierge

Author: Philip Krill

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2021-01-27

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 1665515309

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‘At the Center of our being is a point of pure truth, ‘ wrote Thomas Merton, ‘ a point or spark which belongs entirely to God...This little point of nothingness and of absolute poverty is the pure glory of God in us.’ Merton called this Center Point, Le Point Vierge the Virginal Point. Here, we and God are untied in a Mystery of inexpressible Presence. LE POINT VIERGE: Meditations on the Mystery of Presence is a year of daily meditations exploring the Mystery of Presence as we experience It in the Virginal Point in our hearts. Practicing Presence is a sure and certain way to make fresh contact with God. God is not an Object of our understanding but a Mystery of Presence encountered in the Virginal Point of our hearts. It is hoped that by reading LE POINT VIERGE, the reader will discover the truth of St. Augustine’s words: ‘You, O God, were more inward to me than my most inward parts and higher than my highest’ (Confessions 3.6.11).

Gelassenheit
Gelassenheit

Author: Philip Krill

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2021-08-16

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 1665535040

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Gelassenheit is a German word with many meanings: relinquishment, surrender, abandonment, submission, detachment, letting go, allowing, acquiescence, etc. Meister Eckhart's favorite term for Gelassenheit is releasement. Eckhart, like mystics of every age, experienced God as a Mystery of Releasement. Gelassenheit involves the whole trinitarian Life. The father 'lets go of' Himself to be begotten in an intra-trinitarian act of Gelassenheit, and together, Father and Son 'release' the Holy Spirit, for the salvation of the world. These meditations on Gelassenheit are offered to help us experience God as a Mystery of Divine Releasement. And since the spiritual life is also a progressive growth in interior Gelassenheit, the author also hopes that this book will inspire a trinitarian vision of deification and contemplative prayer. Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) was a German theologian, philosopher, and mystic. A Dominican priest, his writings, comprised mostly of sermons, were considered heretical during his lifetime but are now considered the mystical gold standard of the Middle Ages.

Tearing the Veil of This Sweet Encounter
Tearing the Veil of This Sweet Encounter

Author: Philip Krill

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2021-05-27

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 1665527471

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In 1884, Karl Rahner predicted that ‘the Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.’ These many years later, Rahner’s words are no less prophetic. As organized religion continues to atrophy at an unstoppable rate, the need for a contemplative spirituality continues to grow. Tearing the Veil of this Sweet Encounter is a modest attempt to meet this need. Fr. Philip Krill’s personal mission is to ‘promote a trinitarian vision of deification and contemplative prayer.’ The author prays that all who read this book will be inspired to seek God, not in the moral platitudes of religion, but in the silent depths of contemplative prayer.

Praying with the Fathers
Praying with the Fathers

Author: Philip Krill

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2021-04-06

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 1665521597

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PRAYING WITH THE FATHERS: A Year of Neo-patristic Mediations is a day-by-day prayer book based on selections from the Early Church Fathers. In these meditations, Philip Krill, whose mission is ‘promoting a Trinitarian vision of deification and contemplative prayer,’’ seeks to introduce the reader to the Fathers’ vision of our divinization in Christ and the universally salvific impact of His Incarnation. It is also his hope that those who read these meditations will be drawn more deeply into contemplative prayer.

Divine Kenosis
Divine Kenosis

Author: Philip Krill

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2024-01-04

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13:

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To appreciate the theological genius of Hans Urs von Balthasar, we must note his inseparable connection with Adrienne von Speyr. Balthasar referred to Von Speyr as the inspirational source of his theological vision and literary achievements. Says Balthasar: ‘Her work and mine are neither psychologically nor philologically to be separated: two halves of a single whole, which has as its center a unique foundation’ (My Work: In Retrospect, 105, 89). This ‘unique foundation’ is a mystical apprehension of the immanent Life of the Trinity. At the heart of the Trinity, Balthasar and Speyr see a primordial Mystery of Kenosis, i.e., self-dis-possession. Balthasar terms this Trinitarian self-expropriation Ur-kenosis, since the self-emptying (kenosis) within the Trinity applies not only to Christ but also to the Father and the Holy Spirit. The Father divests himself of himself in the begetting of his Son; the Holy Spirit is the fontal Power of self-abnegation (kenosis) within the Trinity, so ‘emptied of himself’ that he, as Spirit, is absolutely incognito. DIVINE KENOSIS is an attempt to draw attention to the neo-patristic synthesis and anagogical vision promoted by Han Urs von Balthasar and Adrienne von Speyr. It is also an extension of my personal mission to ‘promote a Trinitarian vision of deification and contemplative prayer.’

Gaudete: Mysteries of Joy
Gaudete: Mysteries of Joy

Author: Philip Krill

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-10-27

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 148347528X

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Mary is known in tradition as the Mystical Rose, and praying her rosary is meant to be a mystical encounter with the Most Holy Trinity. Mary is the daughter of the Father, mother of the Son, and spouse of the Holy Spirit. GAUDETE is a scriptural rosary written in a lectio divina key, inviting us to contemplate the Trinitarian dimensions of the Mysteries of Joy. About the Author: Philip Krill is a priest in the Archdiocese of St. Louis, MO.

Deified Vision: Towards an Anagogical Catholicism
Deified Vision: Towards an Anagogical Catholicism

Author: Philip Krill

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-09-29

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 1483475328

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DEIFIED VISION: TOWARDS AN ANAGOGICAL CATHOLICISM is an attempt at activating an "anagogical imagination." It requires of us that we pray for a share in God's own contemplation of the world; that we allow our imaginations to get "lifted up" into His own; that we desire to receive, through the illumination of His Holy Spirit, a participation in His own love and desire for all He has created. One author has called this process 'acquiring an "epistemic participation" in the Mind of Christ.'

Kenosis in Theosis
Kenosis in Theosis

Author: Sigurd Lefsrud

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2019-12-30

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1532693702

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The perennial questions surrounding human identity and meaning have never before been so acute. How we define ourselves is crucial since it determines our conception of society, ethics, sexuality--in short, our very notion of the "good." The traditional Christian teaching of "deification" powerfully addresses this theme by revealing the sacred dignity and purpose of all created life, and providing a comprehensive vision of reality that extends from the individual to the cosmos. Hans Urs von Balthasar is a valuable guide in elucidating the church's teaching on this vital subject. Following the patristic tradition, he focuses his attention on Jesus Christ, whose kenotic descent in his incarnation and passion reveals both the loving character of God and the perfection of humanity. Christ is the "concrete analogy of being" who in his two natures as God and man unites heaven and earth. It is the Trinity, however, that brings to fruition the fullness of the meaning of theosis in Balthasar's theology. The community of divine persons eternally deifies the cosmos by embracing and transforming it into the paradigm of all reality--the imago trinitatis--overcoming the distance between the created and uncreated while maintaining and honoring their difference.