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The Glory of the Lord, a Theological Aesthetics II: Clerical Styles is unavailable, but you can change that!

Henri de Lubac has described von Balthasar as "probably the most cultured man in Europe". In this volume von Balthasar shows the extraordinary range of his knowledge and expertise in a series of essays designed to illustrate different ways in which theologians have shared their work. What he offers is "a typology of the relationship between beauty and revelation" which shows "that there neither...

worked out an interpretation of fire, wind and water, as applied to God. Mention is made, more incidentally, in EH I.2 of a book, On the Objects of Spiritual and Sensible Perception, which was to have constituted, on the one hand, the crucial link between the Divine Names and the Symbolic Theology, and, on the other, that between the Celestial Hierarchy and the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, as well as concerning itself with the central object of any ‘aesthetics’. Further, CH VII.4 once mentions a tractate
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