Having presented his Christology and Mariology under the sign of the 'Dramatis Personae' in volume 3 of Theo-Drama, von Balthasar now turns to the action of the divine drama itself. The Hans Urs von Balthasar Collection is sure to bring you insight, whether you’re wanting to discover new theological ideas or are seeking a deeper understanding of Christology, eschatology, Mariology, soteriology, and ontology.

Finally, in Epilogue Balthasar brings together the three parts of his trilogy by providing an overview and analysis of the preceeding 15 volumes. Here, Balthasar describes the relation of the nature of Jesus Christ (Christology) to reality itself (ontology). The trilogy is completed with the three-volume Theo-Logic. His soteriology, Christology, and eschatology are also developed in this series. Balthasar particularly focuses on the events of Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday. The second part of the trilogy, the five-volume Theo-Drama, focuses on theodramatics, the actions of God and our human response. The Glory of the Lord, the seven-volume work on theological aesthetics, introduces theology based on the contemplation of the good, beautiful, and true.

He was devoted to addressing spiritual and practical issues of his time and resisted reductionism and the human focus of modernity, wanting Christians to challenge modern and philosophical assumptions.īalthasar is most famously known for his sixteen-volume systematic theology which is divided into three parts: The Glory of the Lord, Theo-Drama, and Theo-Logic. His works include over 100 books and articles. Hans Urs von Balthasar was considered to be one of the most important Catholic writers and theologians of the twentieth century.

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In this way, Balthasar fruitfully returns to the starting-point of The Glory of the Lord: Christ the form and content of revelation who completes, while surpassing, the analogy between beauty and glory through the great reversal of his Paschal Mystery. Gloria is (1) epiphany, nearness, being-with-us (2) justification, God’s incomprehensible poiesis of God (3) charis, with the entire double meaning of the ancient concept (Pindar) operative on a higher plane” (Hans Urs von Balthasar, My Work: In Retrospect, 1965). Glory, for them, is eternal love descending into the uttermost darkness. In particular, he focuses on “the two final culminating accounts of divine glory: Paul (see 2 Corinthians 3) and John. His theme in these pages is the revelation of the divine glory in the economy of the New Testament, seen as the surprising, yet fitting fulfillment of the Old. In Theology: The Old Covenant (1967), Hans Urs von Balthasar presents volume III 2/2 of The Glory of the Lord: A Theological Aesthetics (the first part of his Triology) for an overview of the entire work).

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