Thursday, September 11, 2014

Balthasar on the Resurrection

“[Liberal Protestant Theology] renders innocuous the kenotic figure of revelation in the Cross and Resurrection, turing it into a mere ‘teaching’, or even a ‘metaphor’, instead of interpreting the form in all seriousness as the dramatic manifestation of the triune love of God and as God’s battle of love for mankind. It is not the harmlessness of a verbal teaching that snatches the rotting corpse of the sinner out of the sealed three-day-old tomb and revives the flagging courage of the disciples, sending them into the world as witnesses to the Resurrection.”

Hans Urs von Balthasar, Love Alone 148-49

Charnock on God's Goodness

"He is not first God, and then afterwards good; but he is good as he is God, his essence, being one and the same, is formally and equally God and good."

Stephen Charnock, quoted in A Puritan Theology pg 78