| | "We are therefore not required to bring a systematically conceived hell into harmony with the love of God and make it credible, or indeed to justify it conceptually as love (and not perhaps merely as the revelation of self-glorifying divine justice), because no such system could be constructed out of a possible 'knowledge' apart from or beyond love and at the same time related to it. We are required only not to let go of love, the love that believes and hopes and through both is suspended in the air so that its Christian wings may grow. Soaring in the air, I also necessarily experience the abyss below, which is only part of my own flight. Similarly, I can speak of hell only in relation to myself, precisely because I can never imagine the possible damnation of another as more likely than my own."
--Von Balthasar, Love Alone Is Credible
Take that, scholastics. |
| | Posted 4/13/2009 3:33 PM - 39 Views - 2 eProps - 1 Comment
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