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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....

Having looked at the accounts of divine glory in Barth and von Balthasar and found their accounts of human agency in light of that glory to be wanting, I now turn to Scripture, the fountainhead of Christian theology, in order to construct an alternative account. As I mentioned in the introduction, I approach these texts theologically, through the lens of what has come to be known as theological
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