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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.

act he has transferred all of his achievement eucharistically into us. His conscious achievement goes as far as this union of atoning death and Eucharist. Everything else he leaves up to the Holy Spirit, who has led him through life and whom he has breathed out in death toward the Father. Jesus performs the theanthropic work of art and love: he is not so tasteless as to interpret it himself. This is what many exegetes today do not understand; they think the speaking God (Theos legon) must be his
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