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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:DEAD\, BURIED\, \nAND RISEN WITH CHRIST \nBy Hans Urs von Balthasar \n◊◊◊ \nHeaven\, then\, in which we can already participate\, informs our life on \nearth and gives it its meaning; and\, in like manner\, the resurrection determines \nour relation to the cross\, setting up a second and final “soteriological” tension. \nWe are Christians\, because the Lord has risen; if he had not\, our faith would be \nvain. Christ suffered for the sake of glorification and took on himself the cross\, \nthe confession of the cross\, that he might obtain absolution from the Father. We \nare not at first entitled to go with Christ on the way he walked; otherwise there \nwould be no qualitative difference between him and us; he would only be first \namong equals\, and we could be literally called co-redeemers. But “God \ncommends his charity towards us because when as yet we were sinners \naccording to the time Christ died for us… \nWhen we were enemies\, we were reconciled to God by the death of his \nSon”. If we walk with the Son\, it is because we are carried along by the grace of \nthe redemption accomplished by him. The sentence that decided our destiny in \nprinciple was pronounced on Christ as representing all sinners. In him we were \ncrucified and condemned to death; in him justified and accepted as children of \nGod. In him\, without any action on our part\, God’s wrath against us has \nchanged into solicitous love. so then we have to bring to full reality in our \ntemporal life on earth what is already true in Christ and through him in heaven \nwith the Father. \nIn the New Testament what we have to do follows from what we are. We \nare justified\, and must act accordingly. We are dead\, buried and risen with \nHans Uns von Balthasar\, Sheed and Ward 1961\, pp. 233-234.13 \nChrist\, and have to live our lives in view of this. We are no longer to live to sin; \nwe are henceforth to look on the “old self”\, who is dead as dead in fact\, daily \noppose his resistance to the sentence of death\, make him die daily. One might \nsay that in order to exalt the resurrection St. Paul upsets the equilibrium \nbetween the old and the new eon\, the old and the new Adam\, cross and \nresurrection\, fear and hope. From now on the first member of each pair of \nantitheses is comprised within the second; the cross\, in the Christian life\, is \nborne in the strength of the resurrection already accomplished. “In all things we \nsuffer tribulations but are not distressed. We are straitened\, but not destitute. \nWe suffer persecution\, but are not forsaken. We are cast down\, but we perish \nnot. Always bearing about in our body the mortification of Jesus\, that the life \nalso of Jesus may be made manifest in our bodies….For which cause we faint \nnot; but though our outer nature is corrupted\, yet the inner nature is renewed \nday by day.”
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