Tomberg, Valentin Lazarus

This final masterwork of Valentin Tomberg (1900-1973) consists of three parts. Part I, 'The Seven Miracles of John's Gospel,' probes deep correlations between the 7 Healing Miracles, the 7 Days of Creation, and the 7 Sacraments. Part II, 'The Miracle of the Raising of Lazarus,' juxtaposes the mysteries of forgetting, sleep, and death, with those of remembering, awakening, and resurrection, as a prelude to the eternal words: 'Lazarus, Come Forth ' Part III, 'The Miracle of Lazarus in Divine-Human History,' leads to the 'blinding insight' that Christianity is nothing other than the ongoing resurrection of the totality of Divine-Human History, the Ecclesia universalis.