A Key to Balthasar

A Key to BalthasarHans Urs von Balthasar is widely recognized as perhaps the greatest Catholic theologian of the twentieth century. No writer has better revealed the spiritual greatness of the revelation to which the art of the church and the historic liturgies bear witness. Yet students and nonspecialist readers often find Balthasar daunting and difficult. This volume is the ideal introduction to his work. It unlocks the treasure of his theology by focusing on the

Beale explains that Christ's resurrection and ascension place him as the beginning of the eschatological fulfillment of the new creational kingdom

Christian sociologist Matthew Vos explains how the problem of the stranger lies at the root of many problems humanity faces

This final volume in the successful Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture New Testament series interprets First and Second Thessalonians from within the living tradition of the Church

Blomberg then explores the practical and contemporary applications of Jesus the purifier

"actual" God revealed by Jesus

He articulates why congregations feel pressured by the speed of change in modern life and encourages an approach that doesn't fall into the negative traps of our secular age

It also includes a new chapter on medical anthropology

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Second Temple Judaism

McDermott contends that it is only through a historical examination of the Messiah's redemption amid the turmoil of the world and the worship of his people that one can best see God's beauty

Leading ethicist and pastoral theologian Brian Brock reflects on the challenge of disability

Ancient European stories come to life in the poetry of a now-forgotten medieval woman writer