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Christian Meditation is at once a book about what meditation is, in light of God’s revelation, and a book that assists believers in meditating. In a treatment that is both fresh and profound, Hans Urs von Balthasar describes the central elements of all Christian meditation, provides a guide for meditation, and then points the way to the union that prayer achieves in the footsteps of Mary, both...

not my Word but the Father’s who sent me” (Jn 14:24). “The Father loves you because you have loved me” (Jn 16:27). According to Jesus’ demand, then, the condition for mutual love, true Covenant love, between God and man is love for him, the God-Man and perfect embodiment of the Covenant. He is the twofold channel—of God to us and of us to God. Hence, basically, Christian meditation can be nothing but loving, reflective, obedient contemplation of him who is God’s self-expression. He is the very explanation
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