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Credo: Meditations on the Apostles’ Creed is unavailable, but you can change that!

In the 12 months before his sudden death, Hans Urs von Balthasar had been writing a series of reflections on the 12 articles of the Apostles’ Creed. These texts, which are among the last things he wrote, take on the character of a legacy, a spiritual testament. For in their extraordinary compactness and depth they amount to a little “summa” of his theology. What he had set out in detail in...

Everything manifold stems from something simple. The many parts of the human body, from the fertilized ovum. The twelve clauses of the Apostles’ Creed, in the first instance, from the three component questions: Do you believe in God the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit? But these three phrases, too, are an expression—and Jesus Christ provides the proof of this—of the fact that the one God is, in his essence, love and surrender. Jesus knows, and acknowledges, himself to be the Word, Son, expression,
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