The third volume of Han s Urs von Balthasar s Early Writings The Apocalypse of the German Soul Studies for a Doctrine of Ultimate Positions is itself divided into three volumes The first of these German Idealism was originally published in 1937 and reissued in 1947 under a new title Prometheus All three deal with the history of the eschatological problem in German thought as the new title suggests the present one does so through the lens of cultural Prometheanism whose development Balthasar traces from its pre history in German thought Reformation Baroque and Enlightenment through its classical expression in German idealism to its crisis in the either or represented by the duel between Kierkegaard and Nietzsche