Stephen M Fields SJ. "The Beauty of the Ugly: Balthasar, the Crucifixion, Analogy, and God." International Journal of Systematic Theology 9.2 (2007): 172-83.
In the first volume of The Glory of the Lord, Balthasar asks how the crucified Christ can be an icon of a beautiful God. Because the crucifixion initially confronts us as morally and aesthetically ugly, no analogy between worldly beauty and that of divine revelation seems to obtain. Balthasar argues to the contrary. In doing so, he gives us an original interpretation of proper proportionality and intrinsic attribution, analogy's types as understood by Aquinas. Balthasar's placing of the cross at the center of worldly aesthetics forces us to rethink, not only the divine simplicity, but also the relation in God among being, beauty, and love.
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