La cristología dramática de Balthasar

Abstract

One would have to wonder whether the complete image of Jesus that our author transmits wouldn't already have sufficient elements for forcing us to rethink and nuance that negative estimation. For example, his theology of conscience, or unvordenklich, with which he desires to account for the divine measuring of the human rhythm in the development of the man Jesus, shows us a perception of human consistency and its steady development as free human destiny, rather different from the possible, somewhat monophysite derivations of neo-Chalcedonian theology. The descendent accent of Balthasarian Christology is articulated with a sharp consciousness of the status exinanitionis of Jesus. Even his controversial theology of trinitarian inversion attempts to show us an obedient Jesus who lives and fulfills his mission step by step without anticipating anything in the development of his own destiny, in relation to the set of freedoms of the man-God with regard to the Father and to his fellow men. In Das Ganze im Fragment there is a theology of time, of patience and of the distinct ages of Jesus, themes close to the author's heart, that show us his perspective on the real consistency of the man Jesus. Balthasar underlines in this way, as well, the merit of Jesus' entire redeeming existence.