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Balthasar on Early Church Fathers |
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Written by Michael R. Walker
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Saturday, 02 October 2010 14:23 |
‘‘Greatness, depth, boldness, flexibility, certainty and a flaming love—the virtues of youth, are marks of patristic theology. Perhaps the Church will never again see the likes of such an array of larger-than-life figures that mark the period from Irenaeus to Athanasius, Basil, Cyril, Chrysostom, Ambrose and Augustine—not to mention the army of the lesser fathers. Life and doctrine are immediately one. Of them all it is true what Kierkegaard said of Chrysostom: ‘He gesticulated with his whole existence.’’’
Hans Urs von Balthasar, ‘‘The Fathers, the Scholastics, and Ourselves,’’ Communio 24 (1997): 371.
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