Hans Urs von Balthasar Quotes
Everything in Irenaeus is bathed in a warm and radiant joy, a wise and majestic gentleness. His words of struggle are hard as iron and crystal clear, ... so penetrating that they cannot fail to enlighten the unbiased observer.
von Balthasar, Hans Urs. The Glory of the Lord: A Theological Aesthetics, Volume II: Studies in Theological Style: Clerical Styles. Ignatius Press, 1984.
Hans Urs von Balthasar was a Swiss theologian and Catholic priest who is considered an important Roman Catholic theologian of the twentieth century. He was appointed a cardinal by Pope John Paul II, but died shortly before the consistory. Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger said in his funeral oration for von Balthasar that "he is right in what he teaches of the faith" and that he "points the way to the sources of living water."
