hans urs von balthasar the glory of the lord

The secret path of the saints is never denied to one who is really willing to follow it.

“Even so truly a ‘church of the people’ as the Catholic Church does not abolish genuine esotericism. “Nevertheless, even such a historical reminder cannot go beyond a theoretical and practical call to the constant vigilance required to keep the transcendental beauty of revelation from slipping back into equality with an inner-worldly natural beauty.” ( ) by Hans Urs von Balthasar includes books Seeing the Form (The Glory of the Lord : a Theological Aesthetics), Studies in Theological Style: Clerical Styles. 1 God Is Love: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Theology of the Immanent Trinity 2 A Confluence of Diverse Tendencies: The Sources of Balthasar’s Immanent Trinitarian Theology 3 Unless You Become. This is why, when we approach God’s revelation with the category of the beautiful, we quite spontaneously bring this category with us in its this-worldly form.” ( Pages 36–37) The beautiful brings with it a self-evidence that en-lightens without mediation. “But all those who have been once affected inwardly by the worldly beauty of either nature, or of a person’s life, or of art, will surely not insist that they have no genuine idea of what beauty is.

“pave the way to our actual concern, which is the confrontation of beauty and revelation in dogmatic theology” ( ) He re-examines the nature of Christian believing (here. “The primal form is not a form among others, but a form which is identical with existence, a form beyond ‘open’ and ‘closed’, beyond ‘I’ and ‘Thou’ (since it, and it alone, encompasses both), a form which is even beyond autonomy and heteronomy since it unites God and man in an unimaginable intimacy.” ( ) From here, von Balthasar turns to the central theme of the volume: the question of theological knowledge. Logos Research Subscription for Schools.

Hans urs von balthasar the glory of the lord