“A man may die turned away from God, but it is a dying ‘unto’ God, who, in his undergirding death, manifests his trinitarian life in a new and surprising way. In his death [Christ] has revalued all death… it is an expression of the divine life and already contains the Resurrection in itself. No refusal on man’s part can call this reciprocity into question. ‘When God makes demands of God he makes sure that God always overtakes man, that grace has more weight than sin’.”

Balthasar,
Theo-Drama V, 341-342