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Life out of Death: Meditations on the Paschal Mystery is unavailable, but you can change that!

In these meditations, the acclaimed theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar investigates the great mystery of death and dying. He asks about the contradiction, inherent in all men, of wishing to achieve something “imperishable” and gives an answer culled from the Scriptures and from the Church Fathers.

life an enhancement of human creativity as well, for—according to him—man is happy only when he can achieve, give, and bring something to fruition. What unexhausted possibilities lie at the bottom of a soul creating even the most sublime works, like Bach’s or Mozart’s! By the complete surrender of one human nature in Christ’s death, which envelops our dying and leads it along to perfection, powers to love and to achieve are released in our nature that will unfold into God’s eternity.
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