Gaudium et Spes, a courageous Vatican II document written during the Cold War, has not dated. Forty years on, it remains a guide to the modern world, its terrors and its goodness. For it reveals us moving closer to God...To continue reading, click here.
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For Balthasar, "it becomes more important to see ourselves as walk-on actors in an eschatological art work than to strain every muscle to extend the kingdom of justice, love and peace. If Gaudium et Spes is a document of unparalleled courage, von Balthasar is a theologian for a Church that has lost its nerve." Well, straining every muscle to extend the kingdom of justice is important, but it is not the only thing. What about preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ? What about responding to the universal call to holiness?
If this author is looking for more moxie, perhaps he should read "The Moment of Christian Witness" or "The Laity in the Life of the Counsels." There's more to Balthasar than the Trilogy.
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