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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....

Divine glory has been depicted by certain contemporary theologians as intrinsically overwhelming to or competitive with human agency. This construction of the doctrine is interrogated along two closely related lines. First, following Rowan Williams, it appears that this complete bracketing out of human agency defeats the morally serious task of learning about how humans learn their theological language, a human self-reflection on the reality of God and God’s ways
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