"Love Seeking Understanding is a significant contribution to the debates it so accurately describes and provides a remarkable example of doing theology with 'in all things charity.' It pushes readers away from cliched sloganeering and toward addressing particular theological topics like the seven addressed here: Metaphysics, Revelation, Christology, Trinity, Theodicy, Theological Anthropology, and Eschatology. But, at the same time as the collection insists that readers address these topics one by one, it requires readers to see the seven topics interacting with each other. I think the book will appeal to theologians well-read in Thomas and/or Balthasar but would also be helpful for an even broader audience - non-theologians who are interested in what theologians are arguing about."?James Buckley, Loyola University Maryland "Differences between two such comprehensive theological visions as that of Balthasar and St. Thomas cannot be dealt with, adjudicated, or overcome unless they are clearly seen. This volume helps us see them clearly and confidently."?Guy Mansini, OSB, Ave Maria University "Theological dialogue requires comfort with the pluralism inherent in the human conditions of theologizing.

An important stage in this kind of labor is respectful conviventia. Each section of this admirable volume allows for a side-by-side conviventia that one can hope will increasingly blossom into a fraternal face-to-face dialogue in which the Balthasarians and Thomists will deepen an engagement in which theological speculation within each tradition will pass beyond conviventia into a genuine shared engagement in which, to the degree this is possible for wayfarers, some horizons might be fused and theological balkanization can be overcome, to some degree, by the unity afforded by theological science grounded in the supernatural faith that binds us together as Catholics."?Matthew K. Minerd, Byzantine Seminary of Ss. Cyril and Mathodius "This is a superb and much-needed volume with sparkling contributions from Thomists and Balthasarians anxious to alleviate the unnecessary split between camps. The tone of reconciliation is set from the beginning by Matthew Levering's foreword, continued by the editors, and rounded out by Michael Waldstein's luminous afterword. In between, we have the level of conversation and argument that makes for a Catholic as well as 'catholic' theology."?Cyril O'Regan, University of Notre Dame.