The Passion Narratives Are The First Pieces

A Truth That Is Merely Handed On, Without Being Thought Anew From Its Very Foundations, Has Lost Its Vital Power.

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.

The Saints Are Never The Kind Of Killjoy Spinster Aunts Who Go In For Faultfinding And Lack All Sense Of Humor.

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.

In Christ, For The First Time, We See That In God Himself There Exists--within His Inseparable Unity--the Distinction Between The Father Who Gives And The Gift Which Is Given (the Son), But Only In The Unity Of The Holy Spirit.