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Theo-Drama, Volume 4: The Action is unavailable, but you can change that!

Having presented his Christology and Mariology under the sign of the “Dramatis Personae” in volume three of Theo-Drama, von Balthasar now turns to the action of the divine drama itself. Here we find his soteriology, where time, freedom, history, power, sin, conflict are seen in the light of the Cross, the culmination of the action and passion of God and man. As Balthasar expresses it in the...

Son, we have been accepted as free sons of the Father. As a result of biblical revelation, however, the “numinous” dimension in man’s relationship with the universe is finally “clarified”, that is, shown to speak of Christ, and the world is “secularized” (in a correct sense) and shown to be God’s “other”, God’s partner. Thus the world’s relation to the Paternal (and trinitarian) Origin is infinitely heightened: its journey through meaning and time is illuminated by having a beginning and an end,
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