The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.

What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood only as a surrender of self to the other.

Every experience of beauty points to [eternity].

The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.

Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.

We are not only interested in those aspects of the mystery of the Roman Catholic Church which set her apart from the other Christian communities, but also to show how often they are central beliefs by describing what is specifically Catholic in such a way that the partner in dialogue can see, even from his own standpoint, the inner consistency.

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.