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Her (Mary's) Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable of taking up on his shoulders the burden of a guilty world.

Her (Mary's) Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable of taking up on his shoulders the burden of a guilty world.

Hans Urs von Balthasar
Children, Father, Son
Hans Urs von Balthasar (1991). “Unless You Become Like this Child”, p.74, Ignatius Press

The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.

Hans Urs von Balthasar
Fall, Aggravation, Firsts
Hans Urs von Balthasar (1993). “My Work: In Retrospect”, p.99, Ignatius Press

If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.

Hans Urs von Balthasar
Wish, World, Facts
Hans Urs von Balthasar (2004). “Love Alone is Credible”, p.60, Ignatius Press

One can understand nothing of Christ without the mystery of the Trinity, nothing of the Church without faith in the divinity and humanity of Christ, nothing of the sacraments without the bridal mystery between Christian life without Christian faith. Thus, the present sermons revolve around the same center--the inexhaustible mystery of the one indivisible faith.

Hans Urs von Balthasar
Christian, Humanity, Church

To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.

Hans Urs von Balthasar
Moving, His Love, Way
Hans Urs von Balthasar (2004). “Love Alone is Credible”, p.64, Ignatius Press

The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes.

Hans Urs von Balthasar
Philosophical, Doe, Firsts
Hans Urs von Balthasar (1982). “Glory of the Lord VOL 1: Seeing The Form”, p.17, A&C Black

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