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 More Quotes by Hans Urs von Balthasar More Quotes From Hans Urs von Balthasar But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation. Hans Urs von Balthasar god-life life-and-death issues It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first. Hans Urs von Balthasar finding-the-one risk winning The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity. Hans Urs von Balthasar unity pieces passion If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other. Hans Urs von Balthasar wish facts world 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 leaving sadness farewell Her (Mary's) Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable of taking up on his shoulders the burden of a guilty world. Hans Urs von Balthasar father children son We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it. Hans Urs von Balthasar appearance order believe If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel. Hans Urs von Balthasar easter together fall One can understand nothing of Christ without the mystery of the Trinity, nothing of the Church without faith in the divinity and humanity of Christ, nothing of the sacraments without the bridal mystery between Christian life without Christian faith. Thus, the present sermons revolve around the same center--the inexhaustible mystery of the one indivisible faith. Hans Urs von Balthasar church humanity christian To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love. Hans Urs von Balthasar his-love way moving 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 christian men philosophy 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 aggravation fall firsts Consequently, Christian meditation is entirely trinitarian and at the same time entirely human. In order to find God, no one need reject being human personally or socially, but in order to find God all must see the world and themselves in the Holy Spirit as they are in God's sight. Hans Urs von Balthasar christian sight order 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 philosophical doe firsts Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite. Hans Urs von Balthasar finite duality infinite
