In the The Last Act (1983), Hans Urs von Balthasar presents the fourth and final volume of his Theo-drama: Theological Dramatic Theory (which is the second major part of his Trilogy) for an overview of the work as a whole). After having explored the dramatic triumph of the good in the Cross, which reconciles divine and human freedom, Balthasar turns his attention here to the question of eschatology. His approach is a resolutely God-centered one that sets the “last things” within God’s all-encompassing triune reality, which is the “last thing” par excellence. Everything thus hinges on the decisive question: How can the living God be involved in the drama of the world without losing his transcendent immutability or sinking to the level of the changeable divinities that populate pagan mythologies? Other important topics include the trinitarian origin and end of creation, the nature of Christian hope, the relation between hell and God’s universal saving will, divine suffering, and the ultimate value of the world before its Creator.