Introduction To Christianity, 2nd Edition (Communio Books)

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

What is so much yours as yourself, and what is so little yours as yourself?

arena of love

Church is something more and something other than an external institutionalization and organization of ideas. He had understood that Christianity is not a system of

The experiment with God cannot take place without man.

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,

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

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

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.