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This is the introduction to the second part of the trilogy which is von Balthasar’s major work. The Glory of the Lord approaches revelation from the standpoint of the beautiful. The final part of the trilogy, the Theo-Logic, will treat Christian revelation from the standpoint of the true. In this first volume von Balthasar shows how many of the trends of modern theology (e.g. “event”, “history”,...

We have had to spend a great deal of time on A Theological Aesthetics, and its ecumenical conclusion still remains to be written. According to the original plan,1 the Aesthetics forms the first part of a triptych. It describes the way we encounter and perceive the phenomenon of divine revelation in the world (in the manifold forms of its “glory” [Herrlichkeit]). If the two parties involved in the encounter are to do more than give a nod of recognition
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