WOF 481: Bishop Barron on the Theology of Balthasar (11 of 12)

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🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Here is the eleventh lesson of Bishop Barron’s lecture series on one of the most important and influential Catholic theologians of the twentieth century, Han Urs von Balthasar. As we journey through these lectures, we will come to understand his life, his theology, and his ongoing impact on the Church and our work to evangelize the culture. Enjoy!

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Full lecture series available at the Word on Fire Institute: https://institute.wordonfire.org/
Podcast: WOF 149: Who Was Hans Urs von Balthasar?
More Resources: https://www.wordonfire.org/topics/hans-urs-von-balthasar/

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Word on Fire show.
0:10.4	I'm your host, Matthew Petrusig.
0:12.3	We are continuing our walk through Bishop Barron's lecture series
0:15.3	on one of the most important Catholic theologians
0:17.7	of the 20th century, Hans Ors von Balthasar. Enjoy.
0:25.6	We're continuing our study of the Mysterium Pascale, the pascal, the pascal mystery, the study of the three days.
0:31.6	We've looked already at the downward trajectory of the Son of God, beginning with Holy Thursday, the establishment of the
0:38.8	Eucharist, the washing of the feet of the disciples. Then we moved into the Garden of Gitsemite,
0:44.3	where Jesus is pressed to the ground, as it were under the weight of human sin. He's taking
0:51.5	upon himself the sin of the world as part of this downward movement.
0:56.9	We now move to the transition from Gethsemini to the trial. And the word that Baltazar focuses on
1:06.0	here is the Greek word Parodidinae, which has the sense of surrender or handing over. He wants us to think
1:15.1	about Jesus as almost like this plaything that's just being tossed from one to another. He begins
1:22.7	relatively in control at the Last Supper, but then increasingly he'll surrender himself into the hands of
1:30.9	others. He's turned over. Now, that theme is very strong in the Bible, isn't it? Of Yahweh, of God,
1:38.2	handing Israel over to its enemies, usually as a sign of punishment. And there's kind of a double sense going on here.
1:47.6	In a way, Jesus as the embodiment of sin, he's becoming sin, is accepting the punishment of God
1:55.9	on behalf of the human race. But it's also that sense of his being handed over in love. It's not a punishment.
2:05.4	It has that dimension, but it's also this expression of being handed over to us as an act of love.
2:13.9	It's very interesting here is there are a number of human traitors, if you want, because that's the Latin term, trotitor, would translate the sense of being handed over, the one that surrenders him.
2:27.3	So Jesus is kissed by Judas and then surrendered by him into the hands of the temple guard, who then surrender him over to the
2:37.2	Jewish authorities, who in turn surrender him to Pilate, who then surrenders him to the soldiers
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