Hans Urs Von Balthasar Quotes (17 quotes)

Hans Urs von Balthasar, Our Task https://books.google.it/books?id=yEjT5yVci2gC&pg=PT0, trans. John Saward, Ignatius Press, 1994. <br class="br">Our Task: A Report and a Plan (1984)

“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.”

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

First Glance at Adrienne von Speyr (1968)

Hans Urs Von Balthasar Quotes

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

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Source: Unless You Become Like This Child

“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.”

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Source: Unless You Become Like This Child

“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.”

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

First Glance at Adrienne von Speyr (1968)

“The Mystical Body of Christ does not rest on abstract principles but on concrete persons who have missions, or on missions which are personal.”

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Our Task: A Report and a Plan (1984)

“There were many mystical phenomena in Adrienne's life—stigmata, transferences, the radiating of light, levitation, speaking with tongues, and other things of that kind, but they all occurred in a totally unemphatic way. They were mere accompaniments to show forth the heart of the matter: what was to be passed on to the Church, invisibly through prayer and strenuous penance, visibly through the dictated works. The criterion of her mysticism's authenticity lies primarily, if not exclusively, in the quality of what she did and what she had and has to say.”

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Our Task: A Report and a Plan (1984)

“In Maximus all the streams of the Greek patristic tradition flow together in synthesis. At the same time, with real originality, there is much from within that tradition that he takes to a higher level. But the course of this saint's life impressed me even more than his teaching. Once again, like Athanasius, one man was able to defend orthodox Christology against a whole empire. A Byzantine joins forces with Pope St. Martin I in Rome and finally suffers martyrdom for the true faith. This is the summit of that unity of doctrine and life which marks the whole patristic age; speculation and mysticism of the greatest subtlety are wedded to a soberly and consciously grasped martyrdom. In St. Maximus we can see in the Catholica what Kierkegaard found within the individual.”

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Our Task: A Report and a Plan (1984)

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