I finished reading Being Holy in the World. That was very often like sitting in on a post-grad seminar in the middle of the term, a sense of complete bafflement. I may have to do some background reading to be able to form an opinion at all, but I don't necessarily know what I am missing. Certainly not having read Schindler's books is a handicap; but I've read a couple of his essays and find them hard going too. I'm going to put some follow-up resources, available online at this time of writing, at the bottom of this post.
I've started reading A Key to Balthasar by Aidan Nichols, since Balthasar's name came up again and again in reference to Schindler's thought. Maybe I can get some sense about the "Gift" motif that keeps recurring, though it's not a motif but a central unifying theme, I gather that much.
Blessedly, the last essay in the book was by Stratford Caldecott, on Mary, and that one I actually mostly understood. I would like to reread that one, and the one by Tracey Rowland, and the one by Larry Chapp and Rodney Howsare. Those were the ones where I actually felt like I was following the argument.
Communio articles by David L Schindler (some you can read online, some you can't)
Ordering Love: Liberal Societies and the Memory of God
Joseph Ratzinger in Communio edited by Nicholas Healy and David Schindler
THe Oxford Companion to Hans Urs von Balthasar one essay is by Schindler and Healy.
Beyond Mechanism edited by David Schindler
David L Schindler died recently. Here's an In Memoriam by Rodney Howsare and another by Cardinal Gagnon. You can find a lot more of them but those seem representative. He has a son who goes by DL Schindler to distinguish him from his father, who has also written extensively for Communio.
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I've also started reading The History of Black Catholics in the United States by Cyprian Davis. Right now we are in early history, before Pentecost in fact, in reference to Nubia and Ethiopia and some Old Testament references.
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