Christian Obedience, By Its Very Nature, Has

Her (mary's) Son First Had To Be The Child Of The Father In Order Then To Become Man And Be Capable Of Taking Up On His Shoulders The Burden Of A Guilty World.

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

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.

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.

When You Say Yes To God Unconditionally, You Have No Idea How Far This Yes Is Going To Take You. Certainly Farther Than You Can Guess And Calculate Beforehand... But Just How Far And In What Form? At The Same Time, This Yes Is The Sole, Non-negotiable Prerequisite Of All Christian Understanding, Of All Theology And Ecclesial Wisdom.