¹ John Webster, Professor of Divinity at the University of St Andrews, died on 25 May 2016 aged sixty. See the tribute by Davidson, Ivor J., International Journal of Systematic Theology October 2016: 360‐375Google Scholar.

² Scottish Journal of Theology May 2009: 202.

³ See Donald M. MacKinnon, ‘Masters in Israel III: Hans Urs von Balthasar’, The Clergy Review 54 (1969): 859‐69.

⁴ As forcefully argued by Hugo Meynell, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Bernard Lonergan (1976).

⁵ Always the exception: Donald MacKinnon mentions Lonergan's De Deo Trino in his introductory essay to Hans Urs von Balthasar, Engagement with God (translated by John Halliburton 1975) cf p. 13.

⁶ Claude Geffré died on 9 February 2017 aged 91; I attended his lectures on Thomas Aquinas's Christology at Le Saulchoir 1962/3.

⁷ Currently scholar‐in‐residence at Union Theological Seminary, New York City.

⁸ Well set out in ‘God's Perfect Life’, God's Life in Trinity edited by M. Volf and M. Welker (2006): 150.

⁹ David Braine, who died on 17 February 2017, taught philosophy at Aberdeen.

¹⁰ Summa Theologiae Blackfriars Edition volume I (1964): 26‐27

¹¹ Written for the festschrift, which became the gedenkschrift for Ralph Del Colle (1954‐2012), Webster's coeditor on The International Journal of Systematic Theology.

¹² Incredulous analytical philosophers of religion, as well as committed neo‐Thomists, delightedly take this to mean that the existence and nature of God can be established with certainty, i.e. proved apodictically; whereas the text is affirming, against ‘traditionalism’ (‘fideism’), only that God can certainly be known, independently of divine self‐revelation, without specifying how: seeMoonan, Lawrence, ‘…certo cognosci posse: What precisely did Vatican I define?’, Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum 42 (2010): 193‐202CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

¹³ In his later years, if he went to church on a Sunday, Barth favoured Bruder Klaus church in Basel, where he was pleased to find Mass not celebrated ad orientem.

¹⁴ Barth, who died on 10 December 1968, gave his last lecture on Ash Wednesday that year, in tandem with Balthasar: ‘The Church in Renewal’ (Barth) and ‘Unification in Christ’ (Balthasar).

¹⁵ Divided Christendom: A Catholic Study of the Problem of Reunion (1939): vii.

¹⁶ Mentor to Hans Urs von Balthasar, Karl Rahner, and Edith Stein among many others, Przywara is only now being recognized in the Anglo‐American world as the greatest Catholic thinker of the twentieth century. This collection adds decisively to the discovery of Przywara, including as it does the most significant exponents of his work, such as John R. Betz, David Bentley Hart and Kenneth Oakes (whose doctoral research on Barth was guided by Webster at Aberdeen).

¹⁷ Louis Bouyer (1913‐2004), formerly a Lutheran pastor, was a major ressourcement theologian, later with Communio sympathies.

¹⁸ Scottish Journal of Theology 62 (2009); 202‐210.

¹⁹ Adrienne von Speyr (1902‐1967), physician, married to historian Werner Kaegi, received as Catholic by Balthasar in 1940.

²⁰ According to Tracey Rowland, Pitstick's book is a ‘hatchet job’; see her review in International Journal of Systematic Theology, September 2008: 479‐482. For a different view see John D. O'Connor OP, New Blackfriars November 2007: 745‐7.

²¹ Webster must have enjoyed Karl Barth's account of discussing ecclesiology with Pope Paul VI (Ad Limina Apostolorum 1966): for the Pope the Blessed Virgin Mary was icon of the Church, Barth preferred Joseph.

²² Kenotic Trajectory of the Church in Donald MacKinnon's Theology: from Galilee to Jerusalem to Galilee by Timothy G. Connor (2011), an excellent book, emerged from doctoral research at Toronto supervised by John Webster

²³ Her essay in Theological Theology, 319‐335: on how Denys and Juan de la Cruz are not as apophatic as people say.