Introduction To Christianity, 2nd Edition (Communio Books)

arena of love

so that it is not the thought that creates its own words but the given word that points the way to the thinking that understands.

If in the dialogic structure of faith an image of man is thus defined, we can add that it also brings to light an image of God. Man comes to deal with God in coming to deal with his fellowmen.

Thus all three paths are convinced of the unity and uniqueness of the absolute; where they differ is only in their notions of the manner in which man has to deal with the absolute

A symbolum is something that points to its complementary other half and thus creates mutual recognition and unity. It is the expression and means of unity.

In other words, all these statements are not so much gravestones as the bricks of a cathedral,

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,

The Christian sees in man, not an individual, but a person; and it seems to me that this passage from individual to person contains the whole span of the transition from antiquity to Christianity, from Platonism to faith.

“complementarities”.