Description: This series offers a range of authoritative studies on people who have made an outstanding contribution to Christian thought and understanding. The series will range across the full spectrum of Christian thought to include Catholic and Protestant thinkers and to cover East and West, historical and contemporary figures. By and large, each volume will focus on a single "thinker", but occasionally the subject may be a movement or a school of thought.

Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-88) is now acknowledged as one of the twentieth century's greatest Roman Catholic theologians -- along with such others as Yves Congar, Bernard Lonergan, and Karl Rahner. His voluminous writings deal with the whole range of Christian doctrine. The significance of Scripture, the notion of creation, the nature and purpose of people, the meaning of faith, the nature and work of Christ are all topics on which Balthasar has written.

English translations of Balthasar's major works have only been available in the last twenty years. Until now, there has been no substantive English-language introduction to Balthasar's thinking. Ideal for students and general readers, this book, at last, clearly illuminates the entire range of his achievement.

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