Even If A Unity Of Faith Is

Lovers Are The Ones Who Know Most About God; The Theologian Must Listen To Them.

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.

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.

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 Thanks For Being The Person We Are.

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, ... So Penetrating That They Cannot Fail To Enlighten The Unbiased Observer.