As a result, as Hans Urs von Balthasar puts it:
Christianity has received from on high so much power to endure and to be renewed constantly that it cannot cease to remain a continuous thorn in the flesh even of a humanity that has sunk totally into what is earthly.
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Could you provide the source of the von Balthasar quote?
Thanks,
Jeff
Jeff,
It's from "Retrieving the Tradition: On the tasks of Catholic philosophy in our time," from Communio: International Catholic Review, Spring, 1993. I don't have the page number because the volume is out of print and I have it only in xerox, and the page numbers are cropped out of the xerox copy I have. It's about half way through the article.
Cheers, Gil
Endurance indeed. When I step aside to think what it may be like for someone outside of the faith to be presented with the center of this thorn, the resurrection, I can't help but think that this understanding must require endurance. Like you said before, even the apostles weren't ready for it. I just read a comment from Archbishop Dolan saying that the presentation of our faith must be delivered in a crock pot rather than a microwave.
Although our hope points to something that is not of this earth, I pray each one of us takes the time to stick around for the better meal. He's given us 2,000 years to taste it :)
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