Jacques Servais, SJ
Director of Accademia Balthasar
: +39 06 86 328 193
: j.servais
Biographical note
- Born in 1949, entered into the Society of Jesus in 1967, ordained to the priesthood in 1979.
- University studies at Namur, Heidelberg, Louvain (degrees in philosophy and psychology), Brussels, and Rome (doctorate in dogmatic theology).
- Has resided in Rome since 1985, teaches systematic spiritual theology at the Gregorian University, and administers the Casa Balthasar, a school of discernment and formation for young lay Christians.
- President of the Lubac-Balthasar-Speyr Association since its inception in Rome in 1991, under the patronage of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, by disciples of H. de Lubac and H. U. von Balthasar.
- Has published various works and articles on H. U. von Balthasar and the spiritual sources of his thought, in particular St. Ignatius of Loyola and A. von Speyr, but also J. H. Newman, M. Blondel, and F. Ulrich.
Publication
Hans Urs von Balthasar on the Spiritual Exercises.
An Anthology
edited by Jacques Servais SJ
Other Publications
Théologie des Exercices spirituels.
H. U. von Balthasar interprète saint Ignace
de Jacques Servais
Hans Urs von Balthasar
Texte zum ignatianischen Exerzitienbuch
Ausgewählt und eingeleitet von Jacques Servais SJ
Hans Urs von Balthasar
Textos de Ejercicios Espirituales
Selección e introducción por Jacques Servais SJ
November 14-15, 2014: Participation to the Conference “Lumen Gentium: The Church as Sign and Sacrament of Trinitarian Communion”, at the Washington Session of the John Paul II Institute. Speaker on the topic: Hierarchy, Laity, and Religious: Holiness and the Communion of Saints
October 10-11, 2014: Participation to the Symposium “Actualité et fécondité d’un maître : Louis Bouyer (1913-2004)“, at the Institut Catholique de Paris; Lecture given: La Sagesse selon L. Bouyer : Genèse, sources et développements d’une intuition primordiale.
16-21 septembre 2013: Session internationale de théologie à Cotonou (Bénin) sur la trilogie «Jésus de Nazareth» de Joseph Ratzinger-Benoît XVI. Animation de la session préparatoire et conférence au colloque final.
Eine Theologie für das 21. Jahrhundert. Zur Wirkungsgeschichte Balthasars.
Dove: Einsiedeln (Switzerland)
Quando: 11 – 13 settembre 2013
Programma