Here are a few interesting facts about this recent re-published classic book of Balthasar.
1. He dedicated this book to Luigi Giussani.
2. His cousin once dryly observed that Hans Urs von Balthasar wrote more books than most people will read in a lifetime. Balthasar too recognized the problem, which is why he always provided a short summary of each part of his trilogy. 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. [This books tells] the drama of Christian discipleship... 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 Oakes, S.J., University of St. Mary of the Lake
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