Credo: Meditations on the Apostles' Creed

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Credo

Meditations on the Apostles' Creed

by: Hans Urs von Balthasar

In the twelve months before his sudden death, Hans Urs von Balthasar had been writing a series of reflections on the twelve articles of the Apostles' Creed. These texts, which are undoubtedly among the last things he wrote, take on the character of a legacy, a spiritual testament. For they amount in their extraordinary compactness and depth to a little "summa" of his theology. What he had set out in detail in numerous books over five decades, he summarizes here in contemplative plainness and simplicity.

All the characteristics that make von Balthasar's work so distinctive and valuable are to be found here: breadth of vision, loveliness of style, and an intuitive-contemporary passion that allows him to "pray intellectually and think 'cordially'."

In his warm and extensive introduction to the book, Medard Kehl speaks of von Balthasar's "unclouded, almost childlike joy in the richness and beauty of the Mystery" of the threefold God, which "is evidenced in his interpretation of the creed."

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Hans Urs von Balthasar was a priest, a publisher, a translator, an author of numerous theological works, and the spiritual leader of a religious community in Basel, Switzerland. Henri de Lubac called him a "twentieth-century Father of the Church, an embodiment of Catholic culture", and Pope John Paul II named him to the College of Cardinals shortly before his death.