![]() ![]() ![]() Like the first part of the article, the emphasis here shall be upon the fruitfulness that only comes through remaining in Christ. Second, I shall turn to von Balthasar's meditation on "The Father's Vineyard," which makes up the fourth chapter of his lyrical The Heart of the World. A few comments on von Balthasar's Mariology will round off this first section. John the Evangelist, and Adrienne von Speyr led von Balthasar to the one thing necessary: complete abandonment to Christ. (2)įirst, I shall look at a few salient points in von Balthasar's life that shed light upon his own experience of "remaining in Christ." What shall prove decisive here is how St. ![]() Consider this article a small exegesis of how Christ appears as the vine and we the branches in the theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar. (1) It has been promised that "streams of living water shall flow out from within" those who are thus united to Christ, the vine (Jn 7:38). ![]() Jn 15:5) we are free only when we become his joy and fruitfulness come through his death and the taking up of the Cross. THE JOHANNINE IMAGE of the vine and the branches aptly articulates the following paradoxes of Christianity: apart from Christ we can do nothing (cf. ![]()
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