“This is perhaps that final flame, which will fill the whole world and consume it: the appearance of God’s Word in every creature, when nothing but the spiritual Light will shine any more for both the good and the bad. This is the Light which already fills all things secretly, but then it will fill all things openly. This is, I think, the flame that says of itself: ‘I am a consuming fire.’ For he will consume all things when he shall be all in all and alone appear in all things.” JOHN SCOTUS ERIUGENA
Hans Urs von Balthasar, The Grain of Wheat: Aphorisms (1953), chapter titled God