{"id":136666,"date":"2025-04-21T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=136666"},"modified":"2025-04-21T08:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T12:53:11","slug":"hans-urs-von-balthasar-on-easter-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=136666","title":{"rendered":"Hans Urs von Balthasar on Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable. But with Easter, a way out becomes visible for human sorrows, an absolute future: more than a hope, a divine expectation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;Hans Urs von Balthasar <strong>To the Heart of the Mystery of Redemption<\/strong> (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2010), p.39<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Happy Easter . Durer. Praying hands x <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r4IYV0ZEm4\">pic.twitter.com\/r4IYV0ZEm4<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Gea Austen (@GeaAusten) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeaAusten\/status\/980350716412866566?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 1, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable. But with Easter, a way out becomes visible for human sorrows, an absolute future: more than a hope,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=136666\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-easter","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136668,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136666\/revisions\/136668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}