Engagement with God
Author: Hans Urs von Balthasar
Foreword
by Dr. Margaret Turek
The brilliant theologian and philosopher Hans Urs von Balthasar
writes about God’s involvement with man and man’s involvement with
God in the Old and the New Testaments. He shows 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 himself in Christ is an invitation to enter
into the realm of absolute and divine freedom, in which alone human freedom
can be fully realized.
From the true Christian there radiates the kind of freedom that is constantly being sought after by the non-Christian. In modern times, the freedom of man is a theme that preoccupies everyone. Atheistic philosophies are wholly taken up with this preoccupation. The Enlightenment was concerned with the freeing of reason from the “fetters of faith”. Marx wrote about freeing man economically, and Freud wrote of freeing man from the bondage of a past as yet unmastered.
As
opposed to those whose search for freedom urges them onward into a barren void,
the Christian stands as the messenger of freedom accomplished and a freedom
attainable by all. A true freedom of the sons and daughters of God.
“Just as Love Alone Is Credible captures the essence of the seven-volume
The Glory of the Lord, so does Engagement with God explain his five-volume Theo-Drama.
But here he does more: by setting his account of the drama of Christian discipleship
against the anti-Christian ideologies of the 1960s he brings his theology to
bear on the highest cost of discipleship—martyrdom—by seeing the
martyr as the mirror of God’s own involvement in the human race through
his own martyred Son. One can hardly read a more sober, and yet exhilarating,
account of what it means to live committed to God’s own commitment to
the world.”
—Edward
T. Oakes, S. J. Author, Pattern of Redemption: The Theology of Hans Urs Von
Balthasar
Hans Urs von Balthsar, a Swiss theologian, is widely considered one of the greatest
theologians of the twentieth century. He wrote over 60 works of theology, spirituality
and philosophy, including his great trilogy: the 7 volume work The Glory of
the Lord, the 5 volume work Theo-Drama, and the 3 volume work Theo-Logic. His
most famous individual works include Prayer, Heart of the World, Mysterium Paschale
and Cosmic Liturgy.
ISBN:
9781586171964
Author: Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Length: 120 pages
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