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

In this volume von Balthasar turns to the works of the lay theologians, the poets and the philosopher theologians who have kept alive the grand tradition of Christian theology in writings formally very different from the works of the Fathers and the great Scholastics. This volume contains studies of Dante, John of the Cross, Pascal, Hamann, Soloviev, Hopkins, and Peguy.

required of her if she is to see that ‘he is nothing of all that I know and am, and only if all becomes nothing for me can he become my All’. ‘Whoever refuses to go out at night in search of the Beloved … but rather seeks him in his own … comfort … will not succeed in finding him.’76 The love that survives every death but which also has to undergo every death in order to survive: this is the solution of the agonizing paradox of how supreme poetic beauty can blossom
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