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Engagement with God: The Drama of Christian Discipleship
The brilliant theologian and philosopher Balthasar writes about God's involvement with man, and man's involvement with God in the Old and the New Testaments, and how that interaction of the divine with the human reveals the meaning of true freedom that man is always hungering for but often strives after in wrong and dangerous ways. He shows that God's free revelation of hi...more
Paperback, 106 pages
Published
May 28th 2008
by Ignatius Press
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Described Fr. Edward Oakes as capturing the essence of Balthasar's Theo-Drama, this book is the best that I have read of Balthasar's. In lucid, beautiful language he talks about God's encounter with us and the response that encounter should generate in the Christian in the world. The book is very powerful in describing the engagement the Christian is to have in and with the world. Balthasar slices through categories to propose something altogether different from the conventional approaches to...more
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Hans Urs von Balthasar was a Swiss theologian and priest who was nominated to be a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He is considered one of the most important theologians of the 20th century.
Born in Lucerne, Switzerland on 12 August 1905, he attended Stella Matutina (Jesuit school) in Feldkirch, Austria. He studied in Vienna, Berlin and Zurich, gaining a doctorate in German literature....more
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Born in Lucerne, Switzerland on 12 August 1905, he attended Stella Matutina (Jesuit school) in Feldkirch, Austria. He studied in Vienna, Berlin and Zurich, gaining a doctorate in German literature....more
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