{"product_id":"engagement-with-god-the-drama-of-christian-discipleship-9781586171964","title":"Engagement with God: The Drama of Christian Discipleship","description":"\u003cb\u003e Foreward by Dr. Margaret Turek\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e The brilliant theologian and philosopher Hans Urs von Balthasar writes about God's involvement with man and man's involvement with God in the Old and the New Testaments. He shows how that interaction of the divine with the human reveals the meaning of true freedom that man is always hungering for but often strives after in wrong and dangerous ways. He shows that God's free revelation of himself in Christ is an invitation to enter into the realm of absolute and divine freedom, in which alone human freedom can be fully realized. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e From the true Christian there radiates the kind of freedom that is constantly being sought after by the non-Christian. In modern times, the freedom of man is a theme that preoccupies everyone. Atheistic philosophies are wholly taken up with this preoccupation. The Enlightenment was concerned with the freeing of reason from the \"fetters of faith\". Marx wrote about freeing man economically, and Freud wrote of freeing man from the bondage of a past as yet unmastered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e As opposed to those whose search for freedom urges them onward into a barren void, the Christian stands as the messenger of freedom accomplished and a freedom attainable by all. A true freedom of the sons and daughters of God.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Just as \u003ci\u003eLove Alone Is Credible\u003c\/i\u003e captures the essence of the seven-volume \u003ci\u003eThe Glory of the Lord\u003c\/i\u003e, so does \u003ci\u003eEngagement with God\u003c\/i\u003e explain his five-volume \u003ci\u003eTheo-Drama\u003c\/i\u003e. But here he does more: by setting his account of the drama of Christian discipleship against the anti-Christian ideologies of the 1960s he brings his theology to bear on the highest cost of discipleship--martyrdom--by seeing the martyr as the mirror of God's own involvement in the human race through his own martyred Son. One can hardly read a more sober, and yet exhilarating, account of what it means to live committed to God's own commitment to the world.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e --Edward T. Oakes, S. J.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor, \u003ci\u003ePattern of Redemption: The Theology of Hans Urs Von Balthasar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHans Urs von Balthasar \u003c\/b\u003e(1905-1988) was a Swiss theologian widely regarded as one of the greatest theologians and spiritual writers of modern times. Named a cardinal by Pope John Paul II, he died shortly before being formally inducted into the College of Cardinals. He wrote over one hundred books, including \u003ci\u003ePrayer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHeart of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMary for Today\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLove Alone Is Credible\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMysterium Paschale \u003c\/i\u003eand his major multi-volume theological works: \u003ci\u003eThe Glory\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eof the Lord\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTheo-Drama \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTheo-Logic\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ignatius Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50567000031506,"sku":"9781586171964","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_049cf132-e8de-4edd-9ac4-5e4f3ca60e8e.jpg?v=1731905887","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/engagement-with-god-the-drama-of-christian-discipleship-9781586171964","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}