Sublime

Among serious Christians in congregations today there is a growing desire to meet together with other Christians during the midday break from work for life together under the Word. Life together is again being understood by Christians today as the grace that it is, as the extraordinary aspect, the “roses and lilies” of the Christian life (Luther).

Aquinas keeps two things firmly in view here – the necessity of affirming that the sonship of the Word is eternally and intrinsically an aspect of divine life; and the essential importance of understanding that the Persons of the Godhead are one in action.

His fragment work coalesced around his body concealing him inside white self-sufficient masculinist form through which he was imagined as one with his field, homoousios, of the same substance as his discipline.

Boston’s own record of his divinity studies,

Only in Jesus Christ are we one; only through him are we bound together. He remains the one and only mediator throughout eternity.

Out of the chasm of hell—the middle space—we are pulled. We are pulled into the mystery of this miraculous rescue, whereby our new life will not be divorced from the death of godforsakenness. Instead, it will bear the marks of death. In Heart of the World, Balthasar describes this new life: “All of your past is like a dream which one can no longer