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

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,...

own distinction from Being, but also that Being as such by itself to the very end ‘causes wonder’, behaving as something to be wondered at, something striking and worthy of wonder. Reflection, while holding fast to this primal wonder, must be the fundamental aim of metaphysics; here we are attempting to approach it in four stages, which witness to a fourfold distinction and which together reveal for the first time that which in the realm of metaphysics deserves the authentic name ‘Glory’. 1. The
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