Hans Urs Von Balthasar: Quotes about Christ

Hans Urs Von Balthasar was Swedish Catholic theologian. Explore interesting quotes on christ.

Hans Urs Von Balthasar: 34 quotes 10 likes

“In his Gospel, St. John, through long and deep contemplation, acknowledges Jesus to be the Logos of God. In his epistles he points entirely away from himself toward Christ. Finally, in the Apocalypse, in the vision of the Lamb of God, Old and New Testaments are united, and the whole drama of salvation is summed up.”

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

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

God , Christ

“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)

Christ , Personality

“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)

God , Passion , Christ