![]() The opening lines struck me as so relevant to my own experiences in prayer (or rather lack of them) that their author captivated me from the start. The first paragraph showed me that here was a writer who got down to business right away. I had entered the Jesuit novitiate in 1966 and came across a book by him titled simply Prayer. But since his death on June 26, 1988, his thought has become increasingly recognized for its remarkable erudition, daring innovations and solid grounding in the tradition.īecause I have spent much of my life trying to convey Balthasar’s massive achievement through translations, essays and monographs, I am often asked what first drew me to his theology. He never attended the Second Vatican Council as a theological expert, for example, as many of his contemporaries had done. ![]() At first Balthasar was a rather isolated figure, with little influence on other Catholic theologians. By any account he ranks as one of the most significant theologians of the 20th century. 12, 2005, marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Swiss Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar. ![]()
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