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“the words, actions and sufferings of Jesus form an aesthetic unity, held together by the ‘style’ of unconditional love.”
― Hans Urs von Balthasar, Mysterium Paschale: The Mystery of Easter

“God is not, in the first place, ‘absolute power’, but ‘absolute love’,”
― Hans Urs von Balthasar, Mysterium Paschale: The Mystery of Easter

“The Hegelian babble about the real being the true is therefore the same kind of confusion as when people assume that the words and actions of a poet’s dramatic characters are the poet’s own. We must, however, hold fast to the belief that when God—so to speak—decides to write a play, he does not do it simply in order to pass the time, as the pagans thought. No, no: indeed, the utterly serious point here is that loving and being loved is God’s passion. It is almost—infinite love!—as if he is bound to this passion, almost as if it were a weakness on his part; whereas in fact it is his strength, his almighty love: and in that respect his love is subject to no alteration of any kind. There”
― Hans Urs von Balthasar, Theo-Drama: Theological Dramatic Theory

“Purity does not exist in any thinker, simply because one is always historically and socioculturally situated, bound, and limited, and, therefore, no one is epistemologically innocent.”
― Namsoon Kang, Cosmopolitan Theology: Reconstituting Planetary Hospitality, Neighbor-Love, and Solidarity in an Uneven World