Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics.

We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.

Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He maintains moderation.

Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

'joy' in Phillippians is a defiant 'Nevertheless!' that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians' anxiety.

The relation of this God with this man; the relation of this man with this God--this is the only theme of the Bible and of philosophy.