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Hans Urs von Balthasar (12 August 1905 – 26 June 1988) was a Swiss theologian and Catholic priest who was to be created a cardinal of the Catholic Church but died before the ceremony. He is considered one of the most important Roman Catholic theologians of the 20th century.:269ff

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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

Appearance, Beauty, Believe, Longer, Order

It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp. . . Beauty is the word that shall be our first.

Beauty, Different, Finding The One, Risk, Winning, Word

To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the point where we no longer have to give thanks for being the person we are.

Children, Giving, Mean, Owe, Person, Quite

Lovers are the ones who know most about God; the theologian must listen to them.

Knows, Listen, Lovers, Ones, Theologian

The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.

Inner, Love, Reality, Reality Of Love, Recognized

The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes.

Philosophical, Doe, Firsts, Embark, Begin, Studies

If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.

Fact, Facts, Spite, Wish, Wishes, World

To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.

Grants, His Love, Moves, Moving, Revelation, Way

Every experience of beauty points to [eternity].

Beauty, Eternity, Experience, Points

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.

Christian, Detour, Easter, Jesus, Master, Redemption

The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in membership but in order to consecrate a human being to God and to communicate to that person the divine gift of birth from God.

Baptism, Birth, Church, Order

Christian obedience, by its very nature, has a heroic character.

Catholic, Character, Christian, Heroic, Obedience

The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.

Passion, Pieces, Unity

Being disguised under the disfigurement of an ugly crucifixion and death, the Christ upon the cross is paradoxically the clearest revelation of who God is.

Christ, Cross, Disfigurement, Ugly, Who God Is

The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity.

Beautiful, Christian, Dogmas, Trinitarian, Trinity, Two

God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming.

Becoming, Mean, Moment, Present, Who I Am

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.

Absence, Beauty, Face, Faces, Mask, Men

When you say Yes to God unconditionally, you have no idea how far this Yes is going to take you. Certainly farther than you can guess and calculate beforehand. . . but just how far and in what form? At the same time, this Yes is the sole, non-negotiable prerequisite of all Christian understanding, of all theology and ecclesial wisdom.

Christian, Ecclesial, Faith, Inspiration, Theology, Yes

There will never be beings unloved by God, since God is absolute love.

Absolute, Absolute Love, Absolutes, Being Unloved, God, Love

Consequently, Christian meditation is entirely trinitarian and at the same time entirely human. In order to find God, no one need reject being human personally or socially, but in order to find God all must see the world and themselves in the Holy Spirit as they are in God's sight.

Christian, Sight, Order, See, Spirit, Time

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