Life and death, as we all know, are inseparable intertwined in the human condition. At the same time, man has an irrepressible longing to achieve the imperishable in the midst of his mortal existence. The present volume — which first appeared in 1984 with the sub-title *Meditations on the Paschal Mystery *— approaches these paradoxes as a question that man can neither finally avoid nor finally answer. Ultimately, Balthasar shows, it is Christ’s suffering, death, and Resurrection that illumine the mysterious inscription of the desire for eternity within the finitude of man’s nature and predicament.
