The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being.

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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 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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...