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The Glory of the Lord, a Theological Aesthetics IV: The Realm of Metaphysics in Antiquity is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this fourth volume of his magnum opus, von Balthasar considers the metaphysical tradition of the contemplation of Being. He provides major studies of Homer, the Greek Tragedians, Plato, and Plotinus and the development of this tradition in the Middle Ages. He then explores the analogy between the metaphysical vision of the Being and the Christian vision of the divine glory of the Trinity. The...

in its ‘glory’, its appropriate form of manifestation is also possible: the higher the rank of a divinity, the clearer and more beautiful and free from illusion is its appearance.76 One thing remains quite impossible in this system of identity: that the divine should humble itself to serve human beings. Here Porphyry, who does speak of a ‘service’ rendered by the gods, is sharply repudiated by Iamblichus: if the divine grants some participation in itself, it is never changed by this, ‘it does not
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