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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.

of Jesus is also the economic form of his trinitarian surrender to the Father, a form he does not “have” but “is”. While the will of the Father and the completion of his work were the continuing “eucharistic” food for the earthly Jesus (Jn 4:34), in intertrinitary life all the divine hypostases are “eucharistic” food for each other. The Father, too, “feeds” on the Son without whom he could not be the Father, just as both are Father and Son only through the Holy Spirit; yet the Spirit is just as much
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