Sitting on the Lakeshore: Guardini’s Letters from Lake Como Retold

In his Letters from Lake Como, Romano Guardini distilled the characteristics of a cultural shift rural community to an industrialized society. Decades later, he would complete and refine vision that in The End Modern World. two books, but especially Letters, argued for possibility conciliation between Christianity differs medieval Christianity, or Christendom, artificial, technologically infused culture is no longer rooted life pre-modern civilization. this essay, I return Guardini’s concept Christianized industrialism, modern embedded technology yet open transcendence. show groundlessness such continuity with Hans Urs von Balthasar’s concise assessment work, which Balthasar saw as firm groundless.