Mysterium Paschale

Mysterium Paschale. The Mystery of Easter[1] (German: Theologie der Drei Tage[2]) is a 1970 book[2] by the Swiss theologian and Catholic priest Hans Urs von Balthasar. It offers an account of the death and resurrection of Christ, and their significance for the Christian life. Balthasar discusses the "bodiliness" of the Resurrection from the "radical" death of Jesus, involving his descent into the place of the dead on Holy Saturday. Balthasar's willingness to assume the nature and the consequence of his sin makes him, as well as the reader, extrapolate that God can endure and conquer godlessness, abandonment, and death. His exegesis emphasizes that Jesus was not betrayed but surrendered and delivered up by himself, since the meaning of the Greek word used by the New Testament, paradidonai (παραδιδόναι, Latin: tradere), is unequivocally "handing over of self".[3][4] In the 1972 "Preface to the Second Edition", Balthasar takes a cue from Revelation 13:8[5] (Vulgate: agni qui occisus est ab origine mundi, NIV: "the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world") to explore the idea that, from the "immanent Trinity" up to the "economic" One, "God is love" consists in an "eternal super-kenosis".[6][7] In the words of Balthasar himself: "At this point, where the subject undergoing the 'hour' is the Son speaking with the Father, the controversial 'Theopaschist formula' has its proper place: 'One of the Trinity has suffered.'[8] The formula can already be found in Gregory Nazianzen: 'We needed a...crucified God'."[9]

The 1970 original German edition was published by Benzinger Verlag, Einsiedeln.[2] In 1983 it was reprinted by St. Benno-Verlag, Leipzig, including additions made to the second French edition Pâques le mystère, copyright 1981 by Les Edition du Cerf, Paris.[2][10] The first English translation with an Introduction by Aidan Nichols, O.P., was published in 1990.[11]

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References
  1. Balthasar, Hans Urs von (2000) [1990]. Mysterium Paschale. The Mystery of Easter. Translated with an Introduction by Aidan Nichols, O.P. (2nd ed.). San Francisco: Ignatius Press. ISBN 1-68149348-9. ISBN 978-1-681-49348-0.
  2. Balthasar, Hans Urs von (2000). p. 3.
  3. Balthasar, Hans Urs von (2000), p. 77.
  4. Power, Dermot (1998). Spiritual Theology of the Priesthood. The Mystery Of Christ And The Mission Of The Priesthood. London: A & C Black. p. 42. ISBN 0-56708595-3. ISBN 978-0-567-08595-5.
  5. See occurrences on Google Books.
  6. Balthasar, Hans Urs von (2000). Preface to the Second Edition.
  7. Balthasar, Hans Urs von (1998). Theo-Drama. Theological Dramatic Theory, Vol. 5: The Last Act. Translated by Graham Harrison from the German Theodramatik. Das Endspiel, 1983. San Francisco: Ignatius Press. ISBN 1-68149579-1. ISBN 978-1-681-49579-8. it must be said that this "kenosis of obedience"...must be based on the eternal kenosis of the Divine Persons one to another.
  8. Latin: unus de Trinitate passus est. DS 401 (Pope John II, letter Olim quidem addressed to the senators of Constantinople, March 534).
  9. Balthasar, Hans Urs von (1992). Theo-drama. Theological Dramatic Theory. Vol. 3: Dramatis Personae: Persons in Christ. Translated by Graham Harrison from the German Theodramatik: Teil 2. Die Personen des Spiels : Die Personen in Christus, 1973. San Francisco: Ignatius Press. ISBN 1-68149577-5. ISBN 978-1-681-49577-4. Quote.
  10. Balthasar, Hans Urs von (1981). Pâques, le mystère (2nd ed.). Paris: Cerf. ISBN 2-20401779-5. ISBN 978-2-204-01779-4.
  11. Balthasar, Hans Urs von (1990). Mysterium Paschale. London: T. & T. Clark. ISBN 0-56729175-8. ISBN 978-0-567-29175-2.
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