What tensions or seeming-contraries-in-tension exist in a contemplative act and in a contemplative life? For example, dogma and prayer feed off one another.What does contemplation show us? There is the humanity of Jesus there is the blessed Trinitarian life in all its silence and in all its speaking.What are the links between this contemplative, innermost listening and the listening in the Liturgy? in Scripture? in the mediative presence of the Church?.We must become silent and deep enough to listen. Contemplation is possible because God is the Word and speaks.Contemplation is necessary to each and every Christian journey.This book exists, as von Balthasar himself notes, as a kind of summary of his most important thoughts and ideas and focus. I probably wouldn’t have had any interest if it hadn’t been explicitly pointed out to me that the title in French is Contemplative Prayer. OK, that is a much more interesting book! This book was recommended to me by a reader: Prayerby Hans Urs von Balthasar.
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