In Theology: The Old Covenant (1967), Hans Urs von Balthasar presents volume III 2/2 of The Glory of the Lord: A Theological Aesthetics (the first part of his Triology) for an overview of the entire work). His theme in these pages is the revelation of the divine glory in the economy of the New Testament, seen as the surprising, yet fitting fulfillment of the Old. In particular, he focuses on “the two final culminating accounts of divine glory: Paul (see 2 Corinthians 3) and John. Glory, for them, is eternal love descending into the uttermost darkness. Gloria is (1) epiphany, nearness, being-with-us; (2) justification, God’s incomprehensible poiesis of God; (3) charis, with the entire double meaning of the ancient concept (Pindar) operative on a higher plane” (Hans Urs von Balthasar, My Work: In Retrospect, 1965). In this way, Balthasar fruitfully returns to the starting-point of The Glory of the Lord: Christ the form and content of revelation who completes, while surpassing, the analogy between beauty and glory through the great reversal of his Paschal Mystery.