Yes! Von Balthasar is a wonderful author. His use of language is so clarifying! One of my favorite messages in this essay is: "Grace is indwelling." Man's part is to perform a "spectral analysis of his own being so as to deduce therefrom the composition of" his "star".
And this helped with his later thought that "The natural man directs his thought by light of reason...; The Christian thinks in light of the mystery of faith..." I understand this as the problem with reason highlighting indeterminacy. Whereas faith accepts an induction [grace] by which a Christian guides action - that harmonizes the above spectral analysis of the Christian's "star" with God's.
Yes! Von Balthasar is a wonderful author. His use of language is so clarifying! One of my favorite messages in this essay is: "Grace is indwelling." Man's part is to perform a "spectral analysis of his own being so as to deduce therefrom the composition of" his "star".
And this helped with his later thought that "The natural man directs his thought by light of reason...; The Christian thinks in light of the mystery of faith..." I understand this as the problem with reason highlighting indeterminacy. Whereas faith accepts an induction [grace] by which a Christian guides action - that harmonizes the above spectral analysis of the Christian's "star" with God's.