Cambridge Companions to Religion Ser.: Cambridge Companion to Hans Urs Von ...

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The Cambridge Companion to Hans Urs von BalthasarAuthor(s): Edward T. Oakes, S. J., David Moss\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521814676, 978-0521814676\nSynopsis\nHans Urs von Balthasar [tel] is one of the most prolific, creative and wide-ranging theologians of the twentieth century who is just now coming to prominence. But because of his own daring speculations about the meaning of Christ's descent into hell after the crucifixion, about the uniqueness of Christ as savior of a pluralistic world, and because he draws so many of his resources for his theology from literature, drama, and philosophy, Balthasar has never been an easily-categorized theologian. He is neither liberal nor conservative, neither Thomist nor modernist and he seems to elude all attempts to capture the exact way he creatively reinterprets the tradition of Christian thought. For that reason, this Companion is singularly wel.