The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being. Hans Urs von Balthasar attributebeautifulcall Change image and share on social
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 beautifulchristiancontain share on social
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 attainchristiancreate Change image and share on social
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 factgodharbor Change image and share on social
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 condemnationdeathexistence Change image and share on social
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 centercrossdoubt Change image and share on social
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 bearbeautycamp share on social
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 beginconcludeembark Change image and share on social
The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity. Hans Urs von Balthasar composegospelnarrative Change image and share on social
Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite. Hans Urs von Balthasar commencedualityfinite Change image and share on social
