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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....

(otherwise mostly promising) accounts of divine glory to unbracketed human agency, I provide a constructive theological engagement with Scripture in the final chapter. This section focuses on Moses’ encounter with God’s glory in Exodus 33 and 34, Paul’s references to glory and human honour in 2 Corinthians, and the presentation of the glory ‘of an only son’, who calls his disciples friends rather than slaves in the Gospel of John. My engagement with these texts is not strictly along the lines of
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