Introduction To Christianity, 2nd Edition (Communio Books)

arena of love

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

God wishes to approach man only through man; he seeks out man in no other way but in his fellow humanity.

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.

“He is not called Father with reference to himself but only in relation to the Son; seen by himself he is simply God.”

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

The experiment with God cannot take place without man.

monotheism starts from the assumption that the absolute is consciousness,

“Father” is purely a concept of relationship.