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d. 1988 Switzerland
Hans Urs von Balthasar (12 August 1905 – 26 June 1988) was a Swiss theologian and Catholic priest who was to be ordained a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church but died before the ceremony. He is considered one of the most important Roman Catholic theologians of the 20th century.
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The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.
The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.
Love Alone Is Credible (1963)
The Mystical Body of Christ does not rest on abstract principles but on concrete persons who have missions, or on missions which are personal.
Our Task: A Report and a Plan (1984)
God deserves more love than the world gives him. Men, too, need more love than they receive from the world. Our community wants to take her place where these two needs meet.
Our Task: A Report and a Plan (1984)
Only by presupposing God's prior and inconceivable forgiveness can the limitations of human good will be transcended, and only thus can the danger of human pride be avoided.
Love Alone Is Credible (1963)
The exalted moment of love is always full of promise: it is not closed in on itself, but open; we see its natural fruitfulness revealed in the child, even if its spiritual fruitfulness remains hidden.
Love Alone Is Credible (1963)
Adrienne von Speyr has brought mysticism back from the clandestine existence into which, increasingly misunderstood, indeed scorned, it had been exiled and silenced by official theology and proclamation and has returned it to the center of salvation history.
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