Consequently, Christian Meditation Is Entirely Trinitarian And

If One Does Away With The Fact Of The Resurrection, One Also Does Away With The Cross, For Both Stand And Fall Together, And One Would Then Have To Find A New Center For The Whole Message Of The Gospel.

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 Beauty Demands For Itself At Least As Much Courage And Decision As Do Truth And Goodness, And She Will Not Allow Herself To Be Separated And Banned From Her Two Sisters Without Taking Them Along With Herself In An Act Of Mysterious Vengeance. We Can Be Sure That Whoever Sneers At Her Name As If She Were The Ornament Of A Bourgeois Past -- Whether He Admits It Or Not -- Can No Longer Pray And Soon Will No Longer Be Able To Love.

It Is, Finally, A Word Is Untimely In Three Different Senses, And Bearing It As One's Treasure Will Not Win One Anyone's Favours; One Rather Risks Finding Oneself Outside Everyone's Camp... Beauty Is The Word That Shall Be Our First.

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.

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.