Publisher's Synopsis
In March the Church celebrates the great mysteries of Christ's Incarnation, Passion and Resurrection. These core mysteries of faith have recently been explored in a new way by a spiritual teacher and theologian, Hans Urs von Balthasar, whose monumental life's work was partly an attempt to bring mysticism back into the official theology of the Catholic Church.;Saward's book concerns the heart of the Christian revelation, and at the same time serves as an introduction to Balthasar's thought. In particular, he shows Holy Saturday - the period between the Death and Resurrection of Christ - to be full of meaning for the life of faith, and the source of some of the most intriguing and controversial questions in theology today.
