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It Is To The Cross That The Christian Is Challenged To Follow His Master: No Path Of Redemption Can Make A Detour Around It.

To Be Sure, The Response Of Faith To Revelation, Which God Grants To The Creature He Chooses And Moves With His Love, Occurs In Such A Way That It Is Truly The Creature That Provides The Response, With Its Own Nature And Its Natural Powers Of Love.

Wonder — The Enthusiastic Ardor For The Sublimity Of Being, For Its Worthiness To Be An Object Of Knowledge — Promises To Become The Point Of Departure For Genuine Insight Only Where It Has Reached The Stage In Which The Subject, Overwhelmed By The Object, Has, As It Were, Fused Into A Single Point Or Into Nothing.

The Greatest Tragedy In The History Of Christianity Was Neither The Crusades Nor The Reformation Nor The Inquisition, But Rather The Split That Opened Up Between Theology And Spirituality At The End Of The Middle Ages.

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.