"St. Paul would say to the philosophers that……" — Hans Urs von Balthasar
"St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit."
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Hans Urs von Balthasar
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49 Quotes by Hans Urs von Balthasar
Hans Urs von Balthasar has 49 quotes on this site.
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Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
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Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and…
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If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand…
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The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.
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Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the…
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Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for…
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him.…
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The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In…
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Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and…
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Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes…
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The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because…
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
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