Sentences with phrase «penetrating essay titled»

Losing Our Virtue: Why the Church Must Recover Its Moral Vision by David F. Wells Eerdmans, 228 pages, $ 25 It is almost sixty years since Hans Urs von Balthasar, in a penetrating essay titled «Patristik, Scholastik, und Wir,» observed what he considered to be the «late autumn» of our times.