Abstract
The key to Balthasar's logic is his understanding of truth as aletheia or unconcealedness. Theologically, the event of truth happens when the Word becomes flesh. Only a methodology from above can account for the leap which is implied in Jesus' affirmation: I am the truth. The unveiling of the truth in the Christ-event, and its presence in the Church through the Holy Spirit shows that the ultimate meaning of truth is love, the love of the three persons of the Trinity revealed in the missions of the Son and the Holy Spirit. Thus Balthasar argues that the only Christian logic is the logic of love, not verified by reason, but grasped through doing the truth in love.
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