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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 the Christian who is fashioned after him) is the Image, so much so that the first creation “in image and likeness” remains a purely ideal one, whereas the second, concrete creation already contains an admixture of dissimilarity (anticipating the Fall). Finite freedom, in its yearning, penetrates ever more deeply into infinite freedom: this is the progressive unveiling of the image; or, more precisely, the original Image [Urbild] is increasingly reflected and rendered present in the copy [Abbild].
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