Publisher's Synopsis
The publication of Hans Urs von Balthasar's seven-volume The Glory of the Lord established von Balthasar as one of the greatest and most influential Catholic theologians of the twentieth-century.
In its very extent and range, Glory's rich theological aesthetics is understandably difficult to assimilate. Aidan Nichols, one of Britain's most accomplished and lucid theological writers, succeeds in summarising and illuminating the essential theological content of Balthasar's monumental work against the background of the living Christian tradition to which it bears such impressive witness.
His book provides the key to an understanding of one of the most difficult but important writers of our time.
