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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...

The Christian event, as the estuary and goal of the biblical story, ushers in a completely new experience of the divine glory. This new thing provides not merely an additional dimension to what mankind had already known of glory; it completely transforms it. Christian experience is not only an ‘experience of newness’1 but an experience of uniqueness: to such an extent that, in comparison, all other
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