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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...

Spirit of the love that has gone ‘to the end’, and simultaneously the Father ordains something new and different for the Pneuma: now that the Son has breathed forth the Spirit of love in absolute weakness, the Father can demonstrate the absolute power δὺναμις,2 and glory δόξα of his Spirit of love, by raising the Son through the Pneuma (1 Pet 3:18; cf. Rom 8:11; 1 Tim 3:16) to be a ‘spiritual body’ (1 Cor 15:43f.), i.e., a body that is no longer bound to the earthly demarcations between body and
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