As Balthasar would say let us "captivate people with the beautiful, then enchant them with the good and lead them to the true. Every mind and heart is drawn to the beautiful. This can be the way in which there will be less resistance of rediscovering the splendor and the glory of God. In a world where goodness and truth are hard to save from the relativization of the individual, Von Balthasar believes we still can save the beautiful and as a result the beautiful (which is contained in the truth and the good) will save our faith. Select bibliography Primary sources : works by Hans Urs von Balthasar The trilogy The aesthetics The Glory of the Lord, volume 1 : Seeing the Form, tr. Von Balthasar, in his trilogy, theological aesthetics, theodrama and theologic, chooses to explain our catholic faith through the transcendental of the beautiful. Although his brilliant mind (philosophically and theologically) and his prolific writing can cause one to feel somewhat overwhelmed, his clear description of what he desires to accomplish guides one with a sense of clarity, awe and spiritual consolation. Goethe Balthasars work has a second center connected with the name Goetheflt is the counterpart of the theological center on the literary. I have found in Von Balthasar a so much needed theological and spiritual freshness in his writings. von Balthasars The Glory of the Lord 15 b.
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