id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt mc87pn91q0h Todd Walatka The Opening of the Political: Grounding Political Action in Hans Urs Von Balthasar's Theodramatic Christology Through an Engagement with the Christology of Jon Sobrino 2011 .txt text/plain 364 12 43 Through an engagement with the work of Jon Sobrino, Balthasar's account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus and the Christian life today is reconfigured in two ways: in his aesthetics by focusing our gaze on the particularity of Jesus Christ and his merciful love of the poor; in his theodramatics by attending to the role of historical oppression within our relation to God and one another and to the place of the preferential option within a theodramatics attentive to the suffering of the poor and vulnerable. The third chapter responds more directly to the second and third questions as it develops Balthasar's account of history, human action, and the Kingdom of God. cache/mc87pn91q0h.txt txt/mc87pn91q0h.txt