Friday, August 16, 2019

Love in the face of the Cross (Hans Urs von Balthasar)


  In the face of the Cross, love is sobered to its very marrow before God’s agape, which clothes itself in the language of the body; and, in the face of this intoxicating language of flesh and blood that gives itself by being poured out, love is lifted above itself and elevated into the eternal, in order there, as creaturely eros, to be in the tent and dwelling-place of the divine love!

--Hans Urs von Balthasar, 
The Glory of the Lord:  
A Theological Aesthetics


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