"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 to man."

Hans Urs von Balthasar, Swiss Theologian

Love, Time, History, God

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"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 to man."

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"We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it."

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"Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith."

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"Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection."

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"The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite."

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"The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity."

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"But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation."

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

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