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19 Aug 2026 Conversations with Tyler Luke Burgis on Mimetic Desire, Catholicism, and the Age of Social Contagion
“I think that I’m very much a von Balthasar Catholic in the sense that I do see a lot of the goodness and beauty and aesthetic characteristics of the church as related to truth.”
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- Luke Burgis
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- 19 Aug 2026
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Aesthetics trumped theology? Von Balthasar wrote a whole aesthetic treatise, the theological aesthetics. Theology and aesthetics go hand in hand, really. He understood the whole story of the incarnation, like the acts of a play. I think that I’m very much a von Balthasar Catholic in the sense that I do see a lot of the goodness and beauty and aesthetic characteristics of the church as related to truth. It’s one of the ways that we can come to the truth is through beauty. Aesthetically, what is it in Christianity that’s most important to you personally? If it were me—I’m not Christian—but I might say Bach’s B minor mass or maybe Monteverdi’s Vespers. What would you say?…
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