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...

How can revelation take place? How can the abyss and Ocean of all reality make itself knowable and perceivable to the ‘drop in the bucket’ and the ‘speck of dust’ (Is 40:15) that is man? How can the ‘grass that withers’ and the ‘flower that fades’ be touched by the ‘word of our God, that will stand for ever’ (Is 40:8)? To have an inkling of the divine, to adore it from afar, to learn to be silent before it and to allow it to hold

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