Hans Urs von Balthasar

Quotes

• “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.”
• “The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.”
• “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.”
• “Christ's Passion, viewed from within, is of a diversity that the biblical texts and images leave hidden; but numerous mystics through the centuries have been allowed to experience a great deal of it in ever-varying aspects—if only by drops, as it were, compared with the Son of God.”
• “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.”
• “What deserves to be called mysticism—not in the vague sense of the history and philosophy of religion, but rather in the Catholic-ecclesial sense—occurs when God's Word is heard, not only with exegetical and theological understanding, but with the whole heart, the whole being, when one is steadfast before the self-disclosure of the heart of God despite fire and night.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1905-08-12 ) 12 August 1905, Lucerne , Switzerland

Died

26 June 1988 (1988-06-26) (aged 82), Basel , Switzerland

Influences

Rudolf Allers Anselm of Canterbury Thomas Aquinas Karl Barth Martin Buber Henri de Lubac Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Romano Guardini G. W. F. Hegel Friedrich Hölderlin Ignatius of Loyola Irenaeus Maximus the Confessor Origen Plato Erich Przywara Adrienne von Speyr Nicholas of Cusa Sergei Bulgakov

Discipline

Theology

Sub discipline

Christology soteriology systematic theology theological aesthetics

School or tradition

Nouvelle théologie

Influenced

Pope Benedict XVI Klaus Hemmerle Robert Barron Angelo Scola Rowan Williams John Milbank David Bentley Hart Dietrich von Hildebrand Jean-Luc Marion Aidan Nichols Thierry de Roucy Raymund Schwager Eric Voegelin Cyril O'Regan Stratford Caldecott

Religion

Christianity ( Roman Catholic )

Church

Latin Church

Ordained

26 July 1936 (priest) by Cardinal Faulhaber

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Wikidata facts

Official website

balthasarspeyr.org

Image

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