The flight away from self to God is not a "forgetting self" in the sense that man thereby loses himself. Rather, in the experience of the Spirit there is bestowed on man the deepest possible experience of himself: for the Holy Spirit is a Spirit of revelation which illuminates the human spirit, in which it is immanent, by telling man what he is.
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About Hans Urs von Balthasar
Hans Urs von Balthasar was a 20th-century Swiss catholic theologian. Hans Urs von Balthasar was a Swiss theologian and Catholic priest who is considered one of the most important Catholic theologians of the 20th century. With Joseph Ratzinger and Henri de Lubac, he founded the theological journal Communio. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Experience — Learning through living, doing, and facing the world
- God — Spiritual reflections on the divine, faith, and creation