In this work, Balthasar shows how Christ’s redemptive restoration of fallen time unfolds in cosmos and history. Beginning with an (Augustinian) consideration of the diastasis, or distance, between love’s pure time and the fallen time of the sinner, he goes on examine the sense in which man and history are capable of perfection, before concluding with an account of Christ’s eschatological reintegration of all that is fragmentary in the concrete human condition. Balthasar’s focus on christologically mediated eschatology stands in sharp contrast to what he himself criticized as Teilhard de Chardin’s simplistic view of history as a linear evolutionary ascent towards ever greater unity.