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...

that drives forward to a fulfilment that cannot be clearly seen or constructed: that which brings fulfilment can be understood only together with what it fulfils. It is essential today to insist as strongly as possible that Christianity cannot be understood without the old covenant; every attempt to interpret the form, message and subsequent impact of Christ in the world necessarily fails unless it is able to assess it all precisely in its closeness to and its distance from the old covenant. It has

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