Even If A Unity Of Faith Is

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.

Thus It Is Necessary To Commence From An Inescapable Duality: The Finite Is Not The Infinite.

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.

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.

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 The Intelligible Infinite.