The Eucharistic Form of God

Rezensionen / Stimmen

"This fine book, by a most promising young scholar, is not only intellectually rewarding, it is prayerfully pondered-from cover to cover." -America

"This profoundly penetrating study on a pivotal aspect of Balthasar's theology has been extensively footnoted and seems intended for well-grounded theologians. It could be appropriately employed in a graduate seminar, or an advanced class at a seminary, on modern theology." -American Academy of Religion

"For Balthasar, the Eucharist is Christ's thanksgiving to the Father in heaven for having given Him the gift of giving Himself for all. Ciraulo shows in a convincing way that this eternal thanksgiving is given to us as God's most precious gift that moves us toward fulfillment in heaven." -Fr Jacques Servais, SJ, director of the Casa Balthasar

"The Eucharistic Form of God represents a major contribution to scholarship on Hans Urs von Balthasar and Catholic sacramental theology." -Nicholas J. Healy, author of The Eschatology of Hans Urs von Balthasar

"The Eucharistic Form of God fills a large gap in Balthasar scholarship by attending so comprehensively to Balthasar's eucharistic theology and showing how it has an integrative place within the whole of his theology. A masterful and valuable work!" -Matthew Levering, author of The Achievement of Hans Urs von Balthasar

"The Eucharistic Form of God is a feast upon which the reader delights as she receives the gift of Balthasar's eucharistic theology; ... it invites the reader to imitate Christ's eucharistic posture in her unique response to the Savior's offering of divine life given in the Mass and experienced through the ecclesial body's return of diverse gifts under the Spirit's direction." -Theology Today

"When Balthasar says that the cross is an inner-trinitarian event, critics misunderstand this as implying tragedy inside the Trinity, as if the begetting of the Son were the Father's kenotic self-emptying to the Son, who repeats this self-negation on the cross. In fact, the key is not the emptying, but rather self-gift as a supreme act of love, which has its eternal fruit, and so 'objective measure', in the Holy Spirit. Ciraulo beautifully presents the inner-trinitarian life as the circulation of blood, which only 'pours out' as a result of the wounding of sin." -Heythrop Journal