Adrienne von Speyr’s Letter to the Ephesians (which originally appeared in 1950 under the title Children of the Light) “bears the imprint of Paul’s way of conceiving the content and life of faith, and the self-conscious role of the Apostle in the economy of salvation accordingly stands out in bold relief.” At the same time, “in the strictest objectivity, which concentrates exclusively on the word immediately under consideration and meditates on it without glancing either to the right or to the left, she aims to retrace the way through the content of this word back to the sources of revelation. Everything relating to anthropology points to some aspect of Christology, and everything touching Christology refers back to the Trinity as to its ultimate presupposition and explanation.”

From the Preface by Hans Urs von Balthasar