What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood only as a surrender of self to the other.
Hans Urs von BalthasarAbout author
- Author's profession: Theologian
- Nationality: swiss
- Born: August 12, 1905
- Died: June 26, 1988
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