Credo: Meditations on the Apostle's Creed - Softcover

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0898708036 ISBN 13: 9780898708035

Publisher: Ignatius Press, 2000

Synopsis

In the twelve months before his sudden death, Hans Urs von Balthasar had been writing a series of reflections on the twelve articles of a Apostles' Creed. These texts, which are undoubtedly among the last things he wrote, take on the character of a legacy, a spiritual testament. For they among in their extraordinary compactness and depth to a little "summa" of his theology. What he had set out in detail in numerous book over five decades, he summarizes here in contemplative plainness and simplicity. All the characteristics that make von Balthasar's work so distinctive and valuable are to be found here: breadth of vision, loveliness of style, and an intuitive-contemporary passion that allows him to pray intellectually and think 'cordially'. In his warm and extensive introduction to the book, Medard Kehl speaks of von Balthasar's "unclouded, almost childlike joy in the richness and beauty of the Mystery" of the threefold God, which "is evidenced in this interpretation of the creed."

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About the Author:

Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-88), a Swiss theologian and priest, is considered by many the most important Catholic theologian of the twentieth century. Incredibly prolific and diverse, he wrote over one hundred books and many hundreds of articles. A favorite theologian and spiritual writer of Pope Francis, as well as the two previous Popes, he was called "the most cultured man of our time" by Henri de Lubac, and Karl Rahner described his achievements as "really breathtaking."

About this edition

• Publisher: Ignatius Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0898708036
• ISBN 13: 9780898708035
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112