The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes.

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.

The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in membership but in order to consecrate a human being to God and to communicate to that person the divine gift of birth from God.

Lovers are the ones who know most about God; the theologian must listen to them.

Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man.

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

To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the point where we no longer have to give thanks for being the person we are.