COMMENT: Heart of the World, Hans Urs von Balthasar

Cambridge Companion to
Hans Urs von Balthasar

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From: Donald
To: William J W . . .
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Subject: Fw: [Blog] HE AND i, Gabrielle B.- "Exchange of Hearts", 1940 (GB found)

Monday, 17 September 2012

HE AND i, GB. 1940 November 4 Nantes Recreation time

Dear William,

Many thanks.

This is so true  an animated conversation. in this very special revolving over and over a paragraph.

Your very reminding opens up on going light. 

Likewise, my most recent previous 'blog' is even less than the countless turning over in mind, heart, and love.

Von Balthaser, e.g., is brilliant, enlightening and speaks in his voice, and entirely different is the communion of  Gabrielle, the contrast of  the theologian's script and the simplicity of HIM.

Any diagnosis of the gifts of the Spirit leaves adrift adrift in the theological logics on the waves.

....e.g.........

Cambridge Companion Article 

*12 The theo-logic

Aidan Nichols

Introduction

When Hans Urs von Balthasar set out in 1947 to write what wouldlater become in 1985 the first volume of the Theologik, he was already convinced that Jesus Christ was the heart of the world. Historically, the Jesuit order (Society of Jesus), to which he belonged at the time, had often been

linked with devotion to Jesus’ Sacred Heart. But long before the Second Vatican Council this devotion had come under attack for its lachrymose sentimentality. So in Heart of the World (first published in German in 1945), Balthasar had tried to give more tough-minded consideration than was usual to that spiritual theme. Moreover, he realized that one could not flesh out the claim that Jesus Christ was the midpoint of being without a thoroughgoing investigation into the relations of christology with ontology, the study of being, the exploration of reality in its fundamental pith, shape, direction. 

   ...     http://cco.cambridge.org..

The MAGNIFICAT quote from Hans Urs von Balthasar in Heart of the World,(Ignatius Press, 1979) seems indicate a language more to the heart, different from, Theo-Logic. .... Volume I: The Truth of the World• Volume II: Truth of God • Volume III: The Spirit of the Truth. Theo-Drama ..... 

Happy surfing the soars of heights. 

In Dno.

Donald 

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From: William W. . .
Sent: Tuesday, 30 October 2012, 18:59
Subject: Re: [Blog] HE AND i, Gabrielle B.- "Exchange of Hearts", 1940

Dear Father Donald,

 

I am caught up with delight at your extract, and reading on I am celebrating in the paragraph over the page from your extract (Nov 4th 1940). There is described the 'exchange' that goes right to the 'heart' of her relationship with Our Lord:

 

"You know how much more intensely one loves when one feels loved. It's like an animated conversation. Only in this one there is no need of any words. We love; that's all. And I am so much yours that you don't even feel that I come down or that you rise up, but it seems quite simple to you that we talk to each other on the same level, share as equals, even exchange our two hearts, since for Bridegroom and bride everything is in common, and although you give yourself utterly, you keep your personality and only enhance it the more".

 

Truly her's is a living relationship, an exquisite exchange!

 

With my love in Our Lord,

William