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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...

bid us attend to the call that comes to us from the form. From the standpoint of form and word, these two are a single act, but to the person addressed, because it is a question of freedom, this single act can appear twofold: there can be the Yes of willing attentiveness and the No which deliberately overlooks: “Who marks it?” “Little did they esteem you.” The power of aesthetic expression is never an overwhelming power but one that liberates. If we lack receptivity to it, we can blindly pass by
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