Author
Stefan Oster
Stefan Oster, SDB, is bishop of Passau in Germany.
Bibliography
Articles in Communio
4 Articles
Of the Love That Is for Nothing: In Honor of Ferdinand Ulrich
Appears in Love as a Form of Life · Fall 2020 · Vol. 47, No. 3
“He who can say ‘Yes’ to the Crucified out of the depth of his heart says ‘Yes’ to a love that gives itself for free, a love that can give itself away without having to hold onto itself at all.”
Freely to Give: Ferdinand Ulrich as Teacher and Spiritual Father
Appears in Being as an Image of Divine Love: A Symposium on Homo Abyssus · Spring 2019 · Vol. 46, No. 1
“As a dialogical being, man has always, from the beginning, arrived at himself from the other.”
Sexuality and the Forgetfulness of God: Unseasonal Thoughts about a Biblical Connection
Appears in Body and Gender · Summer 2016 · Vol. 43, No. 2
“The primary thing in Christian proclamation [is] helping [people] to enter into the presence of a God who loves us and who for precisely that reason is not indifferent to the way we live, including as sexual beings.”
Thinking Love at the Heart of Things The Metaphysics of Being as Love in the Work of Ferdinand Ulrich
Appears in A Symposium on Caritas Et Veritate · Winter 2010 · Vol. 37, No. 4
“Ulrich has developed a philosophy that is perhaps better equipped than any other to mediate between the parties in the strained relation between philosophy and theology, reason and faith.”