Much could be said about this. Let us content ourselves with the indispensable elucidations by first asking what it really means to say that this logos, whose thought is the world, is a person and that therefore faith is the option in favor of the primacy of the particular over the universal. In the last analysis, the answer can be put quite

In contrast to such limited notions, the aphorism with which Hölderlin prefaced his Hyperion will serve to recall the Christian image of the true greatness of God: “Non coerceri maximo, contineri tamen a minimo, divinum est” (Not to be encompassed by the greatest, but to let oneself be encompassed by the smallest—that is divine).

Not to be encompassed by the greatest, but to let oneself be encompassed by the smallest—that is divine.

as pure relation, pure unity. This fundamental statement about Christ becomes, as we have seen, at the same time the explanation of Christian existence.

“complementarities”.

the person, the unique and unrepeatable, is at the same time the ultimate and highest thing.

Man’s conversation with God and men’s conversation with one another are mutually necessary and interdependent.

“Father” is purely a concept of relationship.

In the procedure of the threefold renunciation and the threefold assent, linked as it is with the thrice-repeated death symbol of drowning and the thrice-repeated symbolization of resurrection to new life,