The Glory of the Lord, a Theological Aesthetics VI: Theology: The Old Covenant (Biblia.com)

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This volume initiates von Balthasar's study of the biblical vision and understanding of God's glory. Starting with the theophanies of the Patriarchal period, it shows how such glory is most fully expressed in the graciousness of the Covenant relationship between God and Israel. But the breaking of that relationship by Israel means that in the later books of the Old Testament, the divine glory is...

mild, diffused light of δόξα, which has become the ‘effluence’ and ‘mirror’ of God (7:26) but which is no longer God himself. Δόξα suffers from the same deprivation of power that has been its fate since Third Isaiah, although it is no longer ‘glory ahead’ and ‘glory above’, but is a radiance from God poured out over the whole cosmos in the present tense. Contact has now been made with the metaphysical concept of glory in Plato and Plotinus: the glory of what ‘exists’ in the world (11:24) is now

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