First appearing in 2005, volume six of Balthasar’s Early Writings contains the text of a then never-before published manuscript: Eschatology in Our time. Christianity and the Last Things (1955). Although it pre-dates his most mature eschatology by a good decade, the present work offers a helpful introduction to all its essential insights. The book’s intellectual center is a fundamental Christological Gestalt-shift: Rather than seeing heaven, hell, and purgatory as existing for human beings independently of Christ, Balthasar locates the foundation of these states in the Lord’s redemptive love itself. The last things, he argues, follow from, and depend for us on the response to, Jesus’ act of vicarious representation, in which he assumed our Godforsakenness and so transformed our death into the possibility of eternal life for all. This opens the possibility of a hope that, while universal in scope, differs toto caelo from any presumptuous expectation of apokatastasis.