The third volume of Han’s Urs von Balthasar’s Early Writings, The Apocalypse of the German Soul. Studies for a Doctrine of Ultimate Positions, is itself divided into three volumes. All three deal with the history of the eschatological problem in German thought. This third volume, *The Apotheosis of Death *(1939), begins with an interpretation of contemporary “eschatological literature,” moves on to a dialogue with Husserl and Scheler, and rounds out the discussion with chapters on Heidegger, Rilke, and Karl Barth. The telos of the book, however, is the victory of Christ over Dionysus, the retrieval of that distinctively Christian eschatology obscured by post-Medieval gnosis und chiliasm. The Prometheus Principle examined in volume I and the Dionysian Principle examined in volume II yield here, in volume III, yield to the true “mythos” of the Cross, which, Balthasar writes, “is the ultimate form of the world that therefore provides the pattern for man’s own ultimate attitude.”