Sample reviews of Alyssa Pitstick's book on Hans Urs von Balthasar...

Aidan Nichols, Oxford University, tells us:

"This severe, but forcefully argued, study will have to be borne in mind in all future assessemnts of Balthasar's theological doctrine."

John Neuhaus -- in First Things.

"Alyssa Pitstick gives no quarter.

"She notes instances in which Balthasar, in her view, misrepresents scriptural, patristic, and magisterial texts and simply ignores aspects of the tradition inconvenient to his arguement...

"Pitstick has thrown down a gauntlet that other theologians should not ignore...

"Thanks to Pitstick, a new and lively debate over Balthasar's achievement is almost certainly underway."