Engagement with God - Softcover

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1586171968 ISBN 13: 9781586171964

Publisher: Ignatius Press, 2008

Synopsis

Foreward by Dr. Margaret Turek

The brilliant theologian and philosopher Hans Urs von Balthasar writes about God's involvement with man and man's involvement with God in the Old and the New Testaments. He shows how that interaction of the divine with the human reveals the meaning of true freedom that man is always hungering for but often strives after in wrong and dangerous ways. He shows that God's free revelation of himself in Christ is an invitation to enter into the realm of absolute and divine freedom, in which alone human freedom can be fully realized.

From the true Christian there radiates the kind of freedom that is constantly being sought after by the non-Christian. In modern times, the freedom of man is a theme that preoccupies everyone. Atheistic philosophies are wholly taken up with this preoccupation. The Enlightenment was concerned with the freeing of reason from the "fetters of faith". Marx wrote about freeing man economically, and Freud wrote of freeing man from the bondage of a past as yet unmastered.

As opposed to those whose search for freedom urges them onward into a barren void, the Christian stands as the messenger of freedom accomplished and a freedom attainable by all. A true freedom of the sons and daughters of God.

"Just as Love Alone Is Credible captures the essence of the seven-volume The Glory of the Lord, so does Engagement with God explain his five-volume Theo-Drama. But here he does more: by setting his account of the drama of Christian discipleship against the anti-Christian ideologies of the 1960s he brings his theology to bear on the highest cost of discipleship--martyrdom--by seeing the martyr as the mirror of God's own involvement in the human race through his own martyred Son. One can hardly read a more sober, and yet exhilarating, account of what it means to live committed to God's own commitment to the world."

--Edward T. Oakes, S. J.
Author, Pattern of Redemption: The Theology of Hans Urs Von Balthasar

About this title

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. Named a cardinal by Pope John Paul II, he died shortly before being formally inducted into the College of Cardinals. 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;andTheo-Logic.

Language Notes:

Text: English, German (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: Ignatius Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1586171968
• ISBN 13: 9781586171964
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 120