the glory of the lord hans urs von balthasar

However he died in his home in Basel on 26 June 1988, two days before the ceremony. From the low point of being banned from teaching, his reputation eventually rose to the extent that John Paul II asked him to be a cardinal in 1988. In 1950 he left the Jesuit order, feeling that God had called him to found a Secular Institute, a lay form of consecrated life that sought to work for the sanctification of the world especially from within.

He worked in Basel as a student chaplain. He joined the Jesuits in 1929, and was ordained in 1936. He studied in Vienna, Berlin and Zurich, gaining a doctorate in German literature. He is considered one of the most important theologians of the 20th century.īorn in Lucerne, Switzerland on 12 August 1905, he attended Stella Matutina (Jesuit school) in Feldkirch, Austria. He wrote over one hundred books, including Prayer, Heart of the World, Mary for Today, Love Alone Is Credible, Mysterium Paschale and his major multi-volume theological works: The Glory of the Lord, Theo-Drama and Theo-Logic.Hans Urs von Balthasar was a Swiss theologian and priest who was nominated to be a cardinal of the Catholic Church. Named a cardinal by Pope John Paul II, he died shortly before being formally inducted into the College of Cardinals. About the Author Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988) was a Swiss theologian widely regarded as one of the greatest theologians and spiritual writers of modern times. The volume ends with the search for the Christian contribution to metaphysics. The strengths and weaknesses of these ways are relentlessly exposed. The way of self-abandonment to the divine glory is traced through figures like Eckhart, Julian of Norwich, Ignatius, de Sales the attempt to relocate theology in a recovery of antiquitys sense of being and beauty through figures like Nicholas of Cusa, Holderlin, Goethe, Heidegger the metaphysics of spirit through Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Idealists. Book Synopsis In this second volume on the metaphysical traditions of the West, von Balthasar presents a series of studies of representative mystics, theologians, philosophers and poets and explores the three main streams of metaphysics which have developed since the catastrophe of Nominalism.

The glory of the lord hans urs von balthasar