{"id":144488,"date":"2026-04-08T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T21:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144488"},"modified":"2026-04-08T18:03:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T22:03:17","slug":"hans-urs-von-balthasar-on-easter-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144488","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>\u201cWithout 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013Hans Urs von Balthasar&nbsp;<strong>To the Heart of the Mystery of Redemption<\/strong>&nbsp;(San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2010), p.39<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Emmaus Disciples (1822), by Abraham Bloemart <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/B3qAjO7Htl\">pic.twitter.com\/B3qAjO7Htl<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Richies Place (@lastdays58) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lastdays58\/status\/1296674995280568320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 21, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWithout 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=144488\">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":[175,174,162,571,178,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-apologetics","category-christology","category-easter","category-eschatology","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144488","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=144488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144490,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144488\/revisions\/144490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}