Hans Urs von Balthasar This is the final volume of this series on "theological dramatic theory" by the great 20th century theologian Balthasar. This series is the second part of Balthasar's trilogy on the good, the beautiful and the true which is his major work. The first series in the trilogy is The Glory of the Lord, and following this Theo-Drama series will be Theo-Logic. In this series "the good" has been the focus. Balthasar maintains that it is in the theater that man attempts a kind of transcendence to observe and to judge his own truth about himself. He sees the phenomenon of theater as a source of fruitfulness for theological reflection on the cosmic drama that involves earth and heaven. This fifth volume is trinitarian, focusing on the mystery of God. He draws heavily on Scripture and many passages from the works of the mystic Adrienne von Spyer. Some of the topics covered include "A Christian Eschotology", "The World is from the Trinity", "Earth moves Heavenward", "The Final Act: A Trinitarian Drama."
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This review is from: The Last Act (Theo-Drama) (Hardcover)
The last volume of von Balthasar's dramatics addresses eschatology, and begins with a tour de force presentation of the primary issue of New Testament scholarship and contemporary theology, how to reconcile the dogmatic core of Christianity that "Christ will come again" with the exegetical insights that find the coming of the Kingdom in the life of Jesus and his disciples. This debate has often be viewed as a dialogue between Schweitzer's "consistent" and Dodd's "realized" eschatology. One sees similar debates between dispensational premillennialism and Reformed postmillennialism. Von Balthasar concludes this introductory section with his famous statement that the later New Testament works of "realized" eschatology (John and late Paul) end the Jewish concern with a "horizontal" theodrama and turn to a "vertical" theodrama. I would understand this to mean that Christians are no longer waiting for some historical event to happen, but instead are in the process of entering into the "kingdom not of this world," a supernatural realm, imperfectly in this life and finally at death.
One would think that von Balthasar would spend the rest of the volume defending this monumental conclusion and demonstrating how it works itself out in the life of the Church. But instead he spends the rest of the volume on speculations about the immanent Trinity in a decidedly social Trinitarian vein. I can only describe this as a total disappointment. He has addressed and solved the greatest issue confronting the contemporary believer, but promptly moves away to other things. I pine for the book I wish he had written.
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