{"product_id":"unless-you-become-like-this-hans-urs-von-balthasar-9780898703795","title":"Unless You Become Like This Child","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn one of the last books written before his death, the great theologian von Balthasar provides a moving and profound meditation on the theme of spiritual childhood. Somewhat startlingly, von Balthasar puts forth his conviction that the central mystery of Christianity is our transformation from world-wise, self-sufficient \"adults\" into abiding children of the Father of Jesus by the grace of their Spirit. \u003ci\u003eAll\u003c\/i\u003e else in the Gospel--the Lord's Incarnation, his hidden and public lives with their silences, miracles and preaching, his Passion, Cross and Resurrection: all else has been for this.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e After giving us the numerous weighty tomes comprising the theological trilogy, von Balthasar, as a kind of last will and testament, proclaims to a self-important and dreadfully earnest generation of contemporaries that only that person is lastingly wise, thoroughly fulfilled, who allows God's mercy to give him second birth and surround him for good with maternal care. The profound and technical knower of the Fathers of the Church and all Western philosophy and theology reveals himself gladly in the end as a humble disciple of ... the Little Flower, Th駻鑚e of the Child Jesus! \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders will be particularly interested in von Balthasar's analysis of the role the Mother of Jesus plays in the Christian's progress toward full spiritual childhood, as well as in the analogy he develops between the insights of early-childhood psychology and the life of Christian childlikeness, which is paradoxically the highest maturity possible to man.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hans Urs Von Balthasar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0898703794\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780898703795\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ignatius Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/16\/1991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 75\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.21h x 4.72w x 0.29d","brand":"Hans Urs Von Balthasar","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44046752448767,"sku":"9780898703795","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b88cfdd0-f656-4e8e-b9c7-0ffc669def56.jpg?v=1684986275","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/unless-you-become-like-this-hans-urs-von-balthasar-9780898703795","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}