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

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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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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 become incomprehensible to man.

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St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.

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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.

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The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes.

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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.

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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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Biography

Nationality: Swiss

Type: Theologian

Born: August 12th, 1905

Died: June 26th, 1988

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