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 inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love...

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