Excerpts from Works by Balthasar

Made available by Ignatius Press' Ignatius Insight:

• Fr. von Balthasar: People "need to recognize the incomparable, the unique character of the Gospel" - An excerpt from a 1986 interview with Fr. Hans Urs von Balthasar, by Angelo Scola. Excerpted from Test Everything: Hold Fast to What Is Good (Ignatius Press, 1989).
  
• Theologians and Saints From Explorations in Theology, vol. 1: The Word Made Flesh
  
• "Jesus Is Catholic" From In The Fullness of Faith: On the Centrality of the Distinctively Catholic. Courtesy of Ignatius Insight.
  
• A Theology of Anxiety? . The Introduction to The Christian and Anxiety.
  
• "Love must be Perceived", Chapter 15, excerpted from Love Alone is Credible. Courtesy of Ignatius Insight.
  
• "The Cross, For Us", excerpt from A Short Primer for Unsettled Laymen. Courtesy of Ignatius Insight.
  
• Church Authority and the Petrine Element, excerpt from In The Fullness of Faith: On the Centrality of the Distinctively Catholic.
  
• The Cross, For Us. Excerpt from Short Primer for Unsettled Laymen.
  
• A Résumé of My Thought, Translated by Kelly Hamilton. Originally published in Communio 15 (Winter 1988).

Formerly available on Gerard Serafin's In Praise of Glory (recovered via Archive.org)

• The Fathers, the Scholastics, and Ourselves, by Hans Urs von Balthasar. Originally published in 1939. "Patristik, Scholastik und wir" Theologie der Zeit.
  
• The Filioque and Catholicity, from Explorations in Theology: IV: Spirit and Institution Part One: At the Source from Chapter Four: "The Claim to Catholicity", pp. 65-121 In the dialogue between Christians, pp. 112-11.
  
• Preface to Heart Of The World.
  
• The Humor of the Saints, excerpt from The Office of Peter and the Structure of the Church.
  
• Jesus Christ: The Inexhaustible Treasure. Excerpt from the chapter "The Word Is Made Flesh", Prayer.
  
• The maximality of love: the criterion of Catholic Dogma, from Truth is Symphonic.
  
• On Women in the Priesthood.
  
• Seeing, Hearing and Reading with the Church, from Exploration in Theology II: The Spouse of the Word, pp. 473-4.
  
• St. John of the Cross. Excerpt from The Glory of the Lord Vol. III: Studies in Theological Styles - Lay Styles.
  
• Why I Am A Catholic. The present abridgment and translation was made by Augustine Valkenburg, 0.P., and first published in the Irish monthly, The Furrow, for March, 1972. Passages from the longer piece, as given in Elucidations).
  
• The Worthiness Of The Liturgy, from New Elucidations.
  

Elsewhere on the Web:

• Virgin Mary: Mother and Daughter of Your Son. L'Osservatore Romano Weekly Edition in English. 30 May 2001.
  
• The Mission of Commmunio. Published in Communio: International Catholic Review 1992.
  
• "Into the Dark with God": A Christmas Meditation on the Incarnation, for a Troubled World. from the collection You Crown the Year With Your Goodness Ignatius Press, 1989. (The German original was published in 1982). Courtesy of Godspy.com.
  
• Contemplation Unites Liturgy with Daily Life. Excerpt from Prayer. Originally published in German in 1961, Prayer was re-published by Ignatius Press in 1986; translated by Graham Harrison.
  
• The Conquest of the Bride. Excerpt from Chapter 12, Heart of the World.
  
• A Divided Church?, excerpt from the Third Volume of the Theo-Dramatic.
  
• "The Little Way". Chapter 3 of Therese of Lisieux.
  
• Lent: Love Provides a Last Chance. Reproduced from Hans Urs von Balthasar, You Crown the Year with Your Goodness: Sermons through the Liturgical Year.
  
• Good Friday: The Scapegoat and the Trinity Reproduced from Hans Urs von Balthasar, You Crown the Year with Your Goodness: Sermons through the Liturgical Year.
  
• Into the Dark with God: A Christmas Meditation on the Incarnation, for a Troubled World Reproduced from Hans Urs von Balthasar, You Crown the Year with Your Goodness: Sermons through the Liturgical Year.