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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...

Scripture; not because God’s word is exclusively poetry and pictorial language, but above all because the verbal form of the Bible is the only proper form for all that is said by God’s Son and Word concerning God the Father, and for all that is indwelt by God’s divinity (or glory); it lies beyond both prose and poetry and all the ‘literary genres’ of which it makes use as human speech. 2. The God of the Bible is neither a tremendum nor a fascinosum, but first of all an adorandum.5 He is and remains
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