Revd. Dr. Stephen Wigley, MA (Oxon), MPhil and PhD (Birmingham) is Superintendent Minister of the Cardiff Methodist Circuit and part time lecturer and Trustee of St. Michael's College, UK, member of the Epworth Review editorial Panel, Convenor of the South Wales District Training Group and a former member of Methodist Faith & Order Committee.

"In this excellent study, Stephen Wigley traces the conversation with great clarity. Writing from an encyclopaedic knowledge of the primary texts (no mean achievement, given the volume of work involved), and a wide critical engagement with recent scholarship, he gives us an overview of this ecumenical enterprise that is readable, original and comprehensive, filling a noticeable gap in recent English-language studies. To all this, he brings his own perspective as a Methodist and an experienced pastor, producing a work of lasting and distinctive value." From the foreword by Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury

• Introduction; 1) No brief encounter: the relationship between Barth and von Balthasar; 2) From dialectic to analogy: The Theology of Karl Barth; 3) Beauty and Being: The Glory of the Lord; 4) Participating in the action: the Theo-Drama; 5) Speaking the truth in love: the Theo-Logic; 6) Anselm: a case study in the approaches of Barth and von Balthasar; 7) Epilogue & concluding reflections (inc. Concluding Unscientific Postscript).

Revd. Dr. Stephen Wigley, MA (Oxon), MPhil and PhD (Birmingham) is Superintendent Minister of the Cardiff Methodist Circuit and part time lecturer and Trustee of St. Michael's College, UK, member of the Epworth Review editorial Panel, Convenor of the South Wales District Training Group and a former member of Methodist Faith & Order Committee.

"In this excellent study, Stephen Wigley traces the conversation with great clarity. Writing from an encyclopaedic knowledge of the primary texts (no mean achievement, given the volume of work involved), and a wide critical engagement with recent scholarship, he gives us an overview of this ecumenical enterprise that is readable, original and comprehensive, filling a noticeable gap in recent English-language studies. To all this, he brings his own perspective as a Methodist and an experienced pastor, producing a work of lasting and distinctive value." From the foreword by Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury

• Introduction; 1) No brief encounter: the relationship between Barth and von Balthasar; 2) From dialectic to analogy: The Theology of Karl Barth; 3) Beauty and Being: The Glory of the Lord; 4) Participating in the action: the Theo-Drama; 5) Speaking the truth in love: the Theo-Logic; 6) Anselm: a case study in the approaches of Barth and von Balthasar; 7) Epilogue & concluding reflections (inc. Concluding Unscientific Postscript).