Studies In Theological Style by Hans Urs Von Balthasar

A collection of essays arguing that the way theology is expressed—the genres, rhetoric and stylistic choices of theologians—is inseparable from the truths it seeks to convey. Through close readings of varied theological voices and literary forms, the work shows how doctrinal insight is shaped and communicated by poetic, dramatic and rhetorical methods, critiques overly abstract or technical theology, and calls for a recovery of imaginative, form-sensitive theological practice that can more faithfully witness to divine reality.