The Glory of the Lord, vol. III: Lay Styles
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
In this volume, von Balthasar turns to the works of the lay theologians, the poets, and the philosopher theologians who have kept alive the grand tradition of Christian theology in writings formally very different from the works of the Fathers and the great Scholastics. This volume contains studies of Dante, John of the Cross, Pascal, Hamann, Soloviev, Hopkins, and Peguy.
With the Logos edition the reader has an abundance of resources that offer applicable and insightful material for their study. You can easily search the subject of theological aesthetics to access an assortment of useful resources and perspectives from a variety of pastors and theologians.
- Examines the nature of ‘glory’ in the context of Western metaphysics
- Compares our results with ‘glory’ in both the Old and the New Testaments
- Sketches the manner in which our study leads on into an ecumenical theology
Top Highlights
“the destructive dialectical Word with the constructive poetic Word” (Page 120)
“Sophia is the eternal feminine in the world, the eternal object of God’s love; it is the essence of the world, gradually moulded, elevated, purified, emerging in its proper selfhood in the primordial image of the Church, the Panagia, the spotless virgin and mother of Christ, but then broadening out to become the real principle of the whole of redeemed humanity and creation.” (Page 292)
“Christ’s Cross is indeed not one historical fact among others to which a natural process can more or less arbitrarily be related: it is the fundamental, ontological presupposition of all natural processes that all, knowingly or not, intrinsically signify or intend by pointing beyond themselves.” (Page 394)
“porque la gloria oprime al que la mira, cuando no le glorifica” (Page 151)
“Man is created, called, endowed with grace, for the sake of the vision of God, for participation in the inner, triune life of eternal love. Man, who is relative, is what he is for the sake of the Absolute, and inasmuch as the Absolute outweighs the relative, so in human desire God must outweigh all created things.” (Page 108)
Balthasar’s most important works, at least in his own eyes, are not his writings but his foundations.
—Peter Henrici
. . . meeting Balthasar was for me the beginning of a lifelong friendship I can only be thankful for. Never again have I found anyone with such a comprehensive theological and humanistic education as Balthasar . . . and I cannot even begin to say how much I owe to my encounter with him.
—Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Title: The Glory of the Lord, vol. III: Lay Styles
- Author: Hans Urs von Balthasar
- Publisher: Ignatius
- Publication Date: 1986
- Pages: 500
Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905–1988) was a Swiss theologian, considered to be one of the most important Catholic intellectuals and writers of the twentieth century. Incredibly prolific and diverse, he wrote over one hundred books and hundreds of articles. He was nominated to be a cardinal of the Catholic Church, but died two days before his ceremony.