Hans Urs von Balthasar’s “Other Books”
Caught this article today about the theologian von Balthasar, hailed by many as a great 20th century theologian. I’m interested in this. I read “Razing the Bastions” for a theology class not long ago and I was completely underwhelmed by it. Obviously, if his works can be considered passable theology (and I’m still out on that), it wasn’t because of *that* book. But I’ll have to do some investigating on this issue before I concur on all the author of the article has to say……
I’m not dismissing it out of hand though, because it has already turned out that at least two other ”premier theologians” of the 20th century have been crackpots. I’m referring to Teilhard Chardin and Bernard Lonergan, both of whom tried to make science into theology and ended up with neither.
