The Form and Drama of the Church; Hans Urs Von Balthasar on Mary, Peter, And the Eucharist (Interview) (Company Overview‪)‬

Introduction The French Jesuit theologian Henri de Lubac once suggested the twentieth-century Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar to be the most cultivated man of his time. "If there is a Christian culture, then here it is!" (1) Father de Lubac's comment alludes to the breadth and depth of von Balthasar's work, which covers the expanse of much of Western intellectual history from classical antiquity to contemporary European literature. And perhaps Father de Lubac's comment also unwittingly serves as a caveat lector. For von Balthasar's erudition presents his readers with the formidable task of searching for the unity of his thought in a body of literature that is vast, diverse, and sometimes quite unsystematic (sometimes intentionally so).