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Theo-Drama, Volume 2: Dramatis Personae: Man in God is unavailable, but you can change that!

The first volume of this series surveyed the great world dramatists to gather concepts and ideas to apply to the real stage, which is the universe God has made and centered into himself as an actor. This volume describes the actors, the dramatis personae. This is his theological anthropology concerning man, his freedom and destiny in the light of biblical revelation. Von Balthasar is concerned...

and throne;52 revelation still comes from heaven,53 and God is now called the “Father in heaven”.54 The Father initiates the movement which, when consummated, is the arrival of the “kingdom of heaven” or the “kingdom of God” on earth.55 If “every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places” (Eph 1:3) has come down to earth in the Incarnation of the divine Word, we must also reflect on Genesis and the fact that heaven and earth were created and the latter was endowed with its own manifold power of conception
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