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Mysterium Paschale: The Mystery of Easter is unavailable, but you can change that!

This is an account, at once rigorously theological and warmly devotional, of the death and resurrection of Christ, and their significance for the Christian life. Von Balthasar offers sharp insights into some current controversies—for example, the ‘bodiliness’ of the Resurrection—and spiritual inspiration for the year round. This scholarly reflection of the climax of the Christian year is an...

of two natures, each with its faculties of knowledge and will, he posits one sole self-consciousness in him, since, when these divine and human faculties are actively engaged, each set codetermines the other. There is neither action nor suffering of the Son made man in which the divine nature does not participate. Similarly, there is no relationship of the eternal Son to the Father, and to the world, that is not conditioned by the self-limitation of the man Jesus. From the standpoint of the single
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