No one should think he can quickly dispose of questions posed here offhandedly. It was precisely because writers were in the habit during the time of….

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 arche….

Christian obedience, by its very nature, has a heroic character..

There will never be beings unloved by God, since God is absolute love..

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to b….

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

One can understand nothing of Christ without the mystery of the Trinity, nothing of the Church without faith in the divinity and humanity of Christ, ….

Hell is to be contemplated strictly as a matter which concerns me alone. As part of the spiritual life it belongs behind the 'closed door' of my own ….

We are not only interested in those aspects of the mystery of the Roman Catholic Church which set her apart from the other Christian communities, but….

Only in Christ are all things in communion. He is the point of convergence of all hearts and beings and therefore the bridge and the shortest way fro….

A truth that is merely handed on, without being thought anew from its very foundations, has lost its vital power..

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it..

Hence the importance of patience in the New Testament, which becomes the basic constituent of Christianity, more central even than humility: the powe….

To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the point where we no longer have to give than….

Everything in Irenaeus is bathed in a warm and radiant joy, a wise and majestic gentleness. His words of struggle are hard as iron and crystal clear,….

The greatest tragedy in the history of Christianity was neither the Crusades nor the Reformation nor the Inquisition, but rather the split that opene….

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….

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….

Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable. But with….

Lovers are the ones who know most about God; the theologian must listen to them..

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. Our situation today shows that ….