Ahora que se cumplen cien anos de la publicacion de este gran libro, y apenas cumplidos cincuenta anos del fallecimiento del que es considerado por parte de algunos como el santo Tomas de la teologia protestante por la summa realizada, tal vez sea una ocasion para hacer un balance y ver cual es su aportacion a la teologia catolica, sobre todo en la respuesta ofrecida por las figuras de Erich Przywara, Gottlieb Sohngen, Jerome Hamer, Henri Bouillard, Hans Urs von
Balthasar, Hans Kiing y de otros autores mas recientes de las areas italiana y anglosajona.
El punto de partida de este recorrido intentara plantear la propuesta ontologica del autor de Basilea: ?que entiende
Balthasar por el ser?
Posiblemente sobre la Amazonia en areas abiertas (introducidos [Digitonthophagus
Balthasar, 1959]
She had given birth to
Balthasar in a warm paddling pool.
A creature's "life-form," following
Balthasar, is "the foundation and defining purpose of one's life," that is the framework, the ideal, that one has shaped one's life about (139).
In his significant work Mysterium Paschale, Hans Urs von
Balthasar claims that "the whole New Testament is unanimous on this point: the Cross and burial of Christ reveal their significance only in the light of the event of Easter, without which there is no Christian faith" (189).
Balthasar concludes that we must hope that all will be saved, and that it seems most likely that the consummation of all things would involve the fulfillment of such a will because of his positions on three prior questions.
Forte follows the insight of
Balthasar according to which the human person, having been created in the image of God, is endowed with the receptivity and freedom of response to receive and freely affirm divine revelation through the unique form of the Incarnation.
While Pipkin insisted that students of Anabaptism could not rightly understand the Swiss Anabaptists without fully appreciating Zwingli, much of the focus of Pipkin's work began to gravitate to the early Anabaptist theologian
Balthasar Hubmaier.