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Hans Urs von Balthasar
Swiss Theologian
Born: Aug 12, 1905
Died: Jun 26, 1988
Beauty Being First God Love Man
Related authors: Albert Schweitzer Dietrich Bonhoeffer John Calvin Mary Baker Eddy Paul Tillich Reinhold Niebuhr Thomas Aquinas William Barclay
Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. Hans Urs von Balthasar
Today Truth Courage Decision Will Goodness Beauty Situation Herself Our Mysterious Allow Taking Demands Along Vengeance She Without Least Itself Sisters Banned Them Much Separated Act Shows Her Two
St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit. Hans Urs von Balthasar
God Man Try Philosophers Philosophy Summit Say Would Seek Attain Divine He Paul Created Theological Why
Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness. Hans Urs von Balthasar
World Sadness Word Beauty Own Our Ancient Both Imperceptibly New Bid Without Understand Leaving Itself New World Refused Which Disinterested Avarice Interests Farewell
Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man. Hans Urs von Balthasar
Love God Time History Man Possibility Archetypal More Individual Divine Divine Love Particular Another Prior However Encounter Conditions Which Appearance Fundamental Belongs
The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite. Hans Urs von Balthasar
First Fall Response Must Only Finite Attempt Road Return Been Intelligible Salvation Infinite Sensible Decline
Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite. Hans Urs von Balthasar
Finite Thus Duality Inescapable Commence Infinite Necessary
Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection. Hans Urs von Balthasar
Doubt Interpretation Cross Resurrection New Without Testament New Testament Center Which Stands Receives
The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity. Hans Urs von Balthasar
Love Beautiful God Good Christian Unity Other Response Trinity He True Contained Because Dogma Essentially Incarnation Fundamental Two
The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity. Hans Urs von Balthasar
Passion First Unity Composed Pieces Gospels Narratives Were
The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes. Hans Urs von Balthasar
Work First Philosophical Embark Rather Studies Volume Does Begin Person Which Theological Series
Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith. Hans Urs von Balthasar
Faith Commitment Example Interpretation Cross Longer New For Example Testament Continuity Oppressed Replace New Testament Order Center Social Apostolic Stands Whoever Jesus

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