Romano Guardini was one of the most important philosophers of religion and theologians of the 20th century. The Catholic Academy in Bavaria, which also manages Guardini's literary estate, honours his memory with a study library and the Guardini Prize.
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What can interest theologians about literature? Why does a scientifically trained mind that reflects on religion need poetry? Let's take a look at an initial answer, written down in the middle of the 20th century: the "word of poetry" makes "the thing, the experience, the fate more dense and clearer at the same time". More concretely: It is precisely in the poem that "a gaze is directed from...
The main sources for Romano Guardini's early personal literary history are the reports on my life written in Mooshausen from 1943 to 1945. Two of them were published in 1984. A third, dated 7 March 1945, is as yet unpublished, but contains the most important and "new" insights for the question at hand. Guardini's reports on my life Under the title "Spiritual...
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