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The Glory of the Lord, a Theological Aesthetics VII: Theology: The New Covenant is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this final volume of his great work, von Balthasar reflects on the New Testament vision of God's revelation of his glory in Christ. This divine 'appearing' is grounded in the self-emptying of the eternal logos in the incarnation, cross, and descent into hell. Christ is the man who represents God and is also God; He is a symbol of the world and is also the world. He dies, but in dying rises...

continuity it must make use of other concepts and thought-forms. What for Jesus was most urgent, can be so for the interpreting Church only if she lets it assume this character of supreme urgency for herself: and this is possible only when the Jesus who proclaims becomes the Jesus who is proclaimed.3 The following chapters will demonstrate that this transposition is not only legitimate, but absolutely necessary. The right approach does not consist in asking what Jesus said and did, and what he did
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