This second volume of Hans Urs Balthasar’s Early Writings consists of his doctoral thesis, which the then twenty-four-year old defended at the University of Zürich in 1928 and published the following year. Writing over a half-century later, Balthasar described the basic impulse behind this work as the attempt “to ‘unveil’ the ultimate (indeed, often religious) attitude of the intellectual and literary giants of German culture, to bring them to confession, as it were, using a method that drew on philosophy and theology to make sense of their art.” In this respect, A History of the Eschatological Problem is like a juvenile sketch of The Apocalypse of the German Soul, which Balthasar would publish in three volumes in the late 1930s.