Loading…

Fully Alive: The Glory of God and the Human Creature in Karl Barth, Hans Urs von Balthasar and Theological Exegesis of Scripture is unavailable, but you can change that!

Numerous contemporary theologians depict divine glory as overwhelming to or competitive with human agency. In effect, this makes humanity a threat to God’s glory, and causes God’s glory to remain opaque to human enquiry and foreign to human life. Karl Barth and Hans Urs von Balthasar have avoided this tendency, instead depicting God’s glory as enabling people to participate in glorifying God....

to the glory of God: Paul makes implicit connections between God’s glory and a transformed process of honouring among humans; John connects glorifying God in accord with God’s glory with a humanity transformed into friends of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit, and loving others as Jesus loves. Paul finds the glory of God focused most intensely in the ‘face’ of Jesus, whereas John locates God’s glory just as intensely in the relationship between Father and Son. But on the whole, it becomes clear that,
Buy this book at Logos.com