Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love…

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.

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

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...

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...

If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with...

If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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.

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...

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...

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...