Christian Classics

Heresy a Cipher

“Every heresy in the history of … dogma” is a cipher for an abiding truth, a cipher we must now preserve with other simultaneously valid statements, sepa-rated from which it produces a false imp-ression.”

Self-communicating Love

“The free turning of God to the world and to us grounds all intraworldly substantiality. The meaning of being is therefore to be found not in sub-stance that exists in itself, but in self-communicating love.” Luc Marion, The God of Jesus Christ

Gospel for the Rich

“The gospel no longer benefits the poor essentially. In fact, Christianity has now even become a down-right injustice to those who suffer (although we are not always conscious of this, and certainly unwilling to admit to it). Today the gospel is preached to the rich, the powerful, who have discovered it to be advantageous.” Soren […]

God Overtakes Man

“A man may die turned away from God, but it is a dying ‘unto’ God, who, in his undergirding death, manifests his trinitarian life in a new and surprising way. In his death [Christ] has revalued all death… it is an expression of the divine life and already contains the Resurrection in itself. No refusal […]

Love at the Heart of Being

“The Absolute loves us… Love is at the heart of being. Again it is necessary that being have a heart, or still more rigorously, that being be a heart. “The heart of being” means nothing but the being of being, that by virtue of which it is being. To suppose that “the being of being,” […]

CHRIST AND HELL

“It is necessary to emphasize that Balthasar’s goal in Dare We Hope, as in Theo- Drama V, is to envisage salvation from within the parameters of his own dramatic theology of Trinitarian self-emptying. This portrayal of redemption hinges especially upon Christ’s descent into hell on behalf of the salvation of all persons.” Thomas Joseph White

The Elevation of the Human

The poet is ‘the transcendental physician’ and poetry is ‘the great art of the construction of transcendental health’ and ‘mixes everything together for the sake of its great purpose of all purposes – the elevation of the human being above himself. Novalis

GOD WITH US

“We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth… It is not that God is the spectator and sharer of our present life, however important that is; but rather that we are the reverent listeners and participants in God’s action in the […]

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