If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel.

Quote by Hans Urs Von Balthasar

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The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the...

The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the...

The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.

The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a...

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a...

The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and...

The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and...

Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and...

Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and...

The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a...

The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a...

To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature...

To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature...

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere...

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere...

What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to...

What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to...

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a...

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a...

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and...

The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and...

The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological...

The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological...

It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as...

It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as...

St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would...

St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would...

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and...

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and...

Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in...

Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in...

Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the...

Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the...

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which...

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which...

Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in...

Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in...