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The Glory of the Lord, a Theological Aesthetics I: Seeing the Form is unavailable, but you can change that!

The work opens with a critical review of developments in Protestant and Catholic Theology since the Reformation which have led to the steady neglect of aesthetics in Christian theology. From here, von Balthasar turns to the central theme of the volume: the question of theological knowledge. He re-examines the nature of Christian believing (here he quickly draws widely on such theological figures...

and by ‘well-structured sanctity’: in each of these cases we confront life in the Holy Spirit, hidden life which is inconspicuous, and yet so conspicuous that its situations, scenes, and encounters receive a sharp, unmistakable profile and exert an archetypal power over the whole history of faith. This is the opposite of what would be expected if a limited individual surrendered himself wholly—to the very core of his person—to that which is essentially Unbounded and Unformed. What we perceive here
Pages 36–37