Travis LaCouter is a Visiting Lecturer at the College of the Holy Cross, USA.

In this ground-breaking study, LaCouter offers a brilliantly eloquent and razor sharp analysis of one the modern tradition’s great theorisers of prayer. Everyone credits Balthasar with making one of the strongest turns to prayer in modern theology, but this is the most extensive and doctrinally rigorous investigations to date in English-language scholarship of how the ‘drama of prayer’ actually plays out in Balthasar’s famously prayerful theology. The unashamedly doctrinal structure of the book is used creatively to leverage unseen aspects of Balthasar’s theorisation of prayer, chart its reception by modern theology, and respond patiently and comprehensively to some of Balthasar’s most formidable critics. Balthasar and Prayer is, simply speaking, a foundational work for anyone interested in modern theology.

• PART I: APPROACHES TO THE QUESTIONChapter 1:Mapping Balthasar StudiesChapter 2: Prayer’s RolePART II:BALTHASAR’S THEOLOGY OF PRAYERChapter 3: Prayer’s Source: Trinitarian Dimensions Chapter 4: Prayer’s Shape: Christological Dimensions Chapter 5: Prayer’s Effects: Anthropological Dimensions Chapter 6: Prayer’s End: Eschatological Dimensions Chapter 7: Prayers Power: Critical DimensionsBibliographyIndex

Travis LaCouter is a Visiting Lecturer at the College of the Holy Cross, USA.

In this ground-breaking study, LaCouter offers a brilliantly eloquent and razor sharp analysis of one the modern tradition’s great theorisers of prayer. Everyone credits Balthasar with making one of the strongest turns to prayer in modern theology, but this is the most extensive and doctrinally rigorous investigations to date in English-language scholarship of how the ‘drama of prayer’ actually plays out in Balthasar’s famously prayerful theology. The unashamedly doctrinal structure of the book is used creatively to leverage unseen aspects of Balthasar’s theorisation of prayer, chart its reception by modern theology, and respond patiently and comprehensively to some of Balthasar’s most formidable critics. Balthasar and Prayer is, simply speaking, a foundational work for anyone interested in modern theology.

• PART I: APPROACHES TO THE QUESTIONChapter 1:Mapping Balthasar StudiesChapter 2: Prayer’s RolePART II:BALTHASAR’S THEOLOGY OF PRAYERChapter 3: Prayer’s Source: Trinitarian Dimensions Chapter 4: Prayer’s Shape: Christological Dimensions Chapter 5: Prayer’s Effects: Anthropological Dimensions Chapter 6: Prayer’s End: Eschatological Dimensions Chapter 7: Prayers Power: Critical DimensionsBibliographyIndex

Travis LaCouter is a Visiting Lecturer at the College of the Holy Cross, USA.

In this ground-breaking study, LaCouter offers a brilliantly eloquent and razor sharp analysis of one the modern tradition’s great theorisers of prayer. Everyone credits Balthasar with making one of the strongest turns to prayer in modern theology, but this is the most extensive and doctrinally rigorous investigations to date in English-language scholarship of how the ‘drama of prayer’ actually plays out in Balthasar’s famously prayerful theology. The unashamedly doctrinal structure of the book is used creatively to leverage unseen aspects of Balthasar’s theorisation of prayer, chart its reception by modern theology, and respond patiently and comprehensively to some of Balthasar’s most formidable critics. Balthasar and Prayer is, simply speaking, a foundational work for anyone interested in modern theology.

• PART I: APPROACHES TO THE QUESTIONChapter 1:Mapping Balthasar StudiesChapter 2: Prayer’s RolePART II:BALTHASAR’S THEOLOGY OF PRAYERChapter 3: Prayer’s Source: Trinitarian Dimensions Chapter 4: Prayer’s Shape: Christological Dimensions Chapter 5: Prayer’s Effects: Anthropological Dimensions Chapter 6: Prayer’s End: Eschatological Dimensions Chapter 7: Prayers Power: Critical DimensionsBibliographyIndex