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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...

obedience to a visible word, is not without preparation in the Old Testament, inasmuch as the invisible ‘I’ of God spoke and established for himself a quasi-form in the perceptibility of his kabod, wherever and however this appeared or was conceptualised. Israel never confused this quasi-form with a mythical self-presentation on the natural level of the God who was exalted above the world; always, it remained a signal that pointed to the decisive thing, the sovereign Word of the all-holy God.1 If
Pages 274–275
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