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The enormously prolific Swiss Roman Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905–1988) was marginalized during much of his life, but his reputation over time has only continued to grow. He was said to be the favorite theologian of John Paul II and is held in high esteem by Benedict XVI. It is not uncommon to hear him referred to as the great Catholic theologian of the twentieth century. In...

Conor Cunningham and Peter Candler GENERAL EDITORS It’s not a question of whether one believes in God or not. Rather, it’s a question of if, in the absence of God, we can have belief, any belief. “If you live today,” wrote Flannery O’Connor, “you breathe in nihilism.” Whether “religious” or “secular,” it is “the very gas you breathe.” Both within and without the academy, there is an air common to both deconstruction and scientism—both might be described as species of reductionism. The
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