"First, one of the reasons that I began this study the way I did was to show just how wedded in many ways Balthasar’s thought is to that of Thomas Aquinas. I repeat, for instance, that the entire first volume of Theo-Logic reads like an extended commentary on Aquinas’s, On Truth.
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For Balthasar, Thomas is decidedly not the Thomas of the neo-scholastics. Balthasar’s reading of Thomas is much closer to that of Etienne Gilson, Henri de Lubac, Gustav Siewerth, Erich Przywara, and Ferdinand Ulrich, to name just a few. Indeed, even today Balthasar has his Thomistic defenders such as Norris Clarke and Kenneth Schmitz."from "Chapter 7: Balthasar's Ongoing Role in Theology" in Rodney Howsare's forthcoming book, Balthasar: A Guide for the Perplexed. (T&T Clark).
A longer excerpt is available at the T&T Clark Blog: Balthasar and the Resurgence of Traditional Catholicism. If you don't already, you owe it to yourself to subscribe to their blog.
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Thank you for the information and resources- I am very interested in this topic and it would be good to have more sources or more reviews on the subject. It helps to read other people's insights and there are not that many who see the complimentary aspects and connections of Balthasar and Aquinas without being disheartened by the differences. They tend to separate themselves into
separate camps.
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