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Article: The Cambridge Companion to Hans Urs von Balthasar.(Book Review)

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February 1, 2005
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THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO HANS URS VON BALTHASAR. Edited by EDWARD T. OAKES and DAVID MOSS. Cambridge University Press. 284pp. $25.99 paper.

You could spend a lifetime, or so it seems, reading Hans Urs von Balthasar. At least three or four years would be given just to reading through the long shelf of books, and then comes the rereading and pondering without end. I suppose that Father Edward T. Oakes has read Balthasar as closely as anyone alive. His book The Pattern of Redemption is the best introduction to the great man's thought. Now Oakes has joined up with David Moss of Exeter University in editing The Cambridge Companion to Hans Urs von Balthasar, which ...

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