The Glory of the Lord, a Theological Aesthetics V: The Realm of Metaphysics in the Modern Age (Biblia.com)

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In this second volume on the metaphysical traditions of the West, von Balthasar presents a series of studies of representative mystics, theologians, philosophers, and poets and explores the three main streams of metaphysics which have developed since the 'catastrophe' of Nominalism. The way of self-abandonment to the divine glory is traced through figures like Eckhart, Julian of Norwich,...

to self in order to dwell in the will of God has no particular wishes of its own. It is utterly self-obliterated and transformed into God’s will, like a little child still unable to exercise his will to want or love anything except the breast and the face of his beloved mother.’8 PIERRE DE BERULLE,9 who founded the French Oratory in 1611, was also responsible for a spiritual synthesis of great significance, which developed in a variety of ways in his disciples, of

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