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.

Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

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

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel.

The Holy Spirit knows what a particular age's most pressing need is far better than men with their programs.