Hans Urs Von Balthasar Quotes


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


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


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


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


Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite. - Hans Urs Von Balthasar


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


The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity. - Hans Urs Von Balthasar


The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love. - Hans Urs Von Balthasar


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


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