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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...

Here we intend to set forth our theory of “theo-drama”, having concluded the predominantly literary prolegomena in volume one, which yielded a whole set of resources for the task. This “theo-drama” is a “theological”1 undertaking; that is, it reflects upon the dramatic character of existence in the light of biblical revelation. Thus our reflections are themselves based on this revelation: they do not merely seek it. This is immediately evident from the fact that our view of God, the world
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