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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...

way—how the biblical glory of the Lord God could be thought and expressed in the categories of the ancient understanding of the glory of God and the world: and it was all the easier because this understanding was, in its very origins, a complete theology, which was only waiting to be purified in the Christian realm and then to continue its existence in a higher mode. Spolia Aegyptiorum (Exod 3:21–22; 12:35–36), the famous image, so much discussed by the Fathers, expresses the essential: the investment
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