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Product Details

  • Paperback: 220 pages
  • Publisher: Ignatius Press (June 1, 1980)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0898700019
  • ISBN-13: 978-0898700015
  • Product Dimensions: 4.7 x 0.7 x 7.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsSpiritual and literary masterpiece
By sculpting/time on August 9, 2010
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Totally agree with the previous reviewer: this book is both immensely challenging on a spiritual level and a beautiful work of art on the literary level. How von Balthasar takes in all sorts of materials and reproduces them in his own work lends this book an allusive depth that is stunning. I think particularly here of reworking biblical passages, such as "I am the vine, you are the wine that I have wept," and the moving, imaginative exposition of despair from Judas' point of view. There is also an unexpected reworking of Augustine in the conclusion that should remain a surprise. The most important thing about this work, however, is that it will open you to God.

I am profoundly thankful that this work exists, and for Erasmo Leiva for translating it so well.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Classic
By S. MCCAIG on February 2, 2010
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This is a classic work of spirituality from one of the greatest minds of the 20th Century. It is something you will read and meditate on for many years - and it will still be providing fresh insights and substantial spiritual nourishment.
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5.0 out of 5 starsMind blowing and poetic theological meditations on Christ.
By andromeda on January 14, 2014
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I think the best way to describe this work is to use the translator, Erasmo Leiva's own words: "For Balthasar, as for Kempis and all genuine Christians, the saint is first and foremost the one who renders constant thanks for having been loved and who never forgets the misery of once not having loved or let God love. The joy and peace of Christ cannot be conjured up at will by an obsessive desire for happiness. They follow only from our deliverance out of a private abyss of illusion, and they are perfected by our groping attempt to be worthy of such a Lover..." Indeed, Heart of the World, aims to walk us through our deliverance by attempting to walk us through Christ Himself.

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"Prisons Of Finitude! Like every other being, man is born in many prisons."..."From the grilled windows of the senses each person looks out to the alien things which he will never be."
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Masterpiece
By Alita on November 26, 2012
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This is an extraordinary book. The heart of the world is Jesus. Exceptional material for meditations. Might as well be von Balthasar's masterpiece.
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