How does God show Himself? He shows Himself in Elijah, recognized as a man of God, and He shows Himself in Christ, recognized as a prophet and as a visitation of the Divine. But we see in Elijah and in Christ, despite the kinds of intimacy with God which they enjoy, that neither...
The Word became flesh. We reflect on this, perhaps, too little. But at the very beginning of the third century, somewhere between 203 and 206, the theologian Tertullian, called the father of Latin Christianity and founder of Western theology, wrote a work entitled De Carne Christi: a treatise expressly on the flesh of...
The sense of our Lord’s post-Resurrection appearances throughout the New Testament is intensely paradoxical: we can say, in fact, that their sense is that they make no sense. Now we need to dwell on this impossibility of making sense of what we are shown, rather than try to ignore or overcome it: we...
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Series Editor: David L. Schindler The founding editorial statement of the rationale of this series: The middle years of this century marked a particularly intense time of crisis and change in European Society. During this period (1930-1950), a broad intellectual and spiritual movement arose within the European Catholic community, largely...
Jesus said to them, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am’. Jesus’ words here are a revelation of His transcendence as God. But they are also a revelation of His transcendence as man. They are in fact a revelation of a single transcendence: they open to us the Son...