Beauty Is The Disinterested One, Without Which

Love Alone Is Credible.

Faith Means The Fundamental Response To The Love That Has Offered Itself Up For Me. It Thus Becomes Clear That Faith Is Ordered Primarily To The Inconceivability Of God's Love, Which Surpasses Us And Anticipates Us. Love Alone Is Credible; Nothing Else Can Be Believed, And Nothing Else Ought To Be Believed. This Is The Achievement, The 'work' Of Faith: To Recognize This Absolute Prius, Which Nothing Else Can Surpass; To Believe That There Is Such A Thing As Love, Absolute Love, And That There Is Nothing Higher Or Greater Than It.

In Christ, For The First Time, We See That In God Himself There Exists--within His Inseparable Unity--the Distinction Between The Father Who Gives And The Gift Which Is Given (the Son), But Only In The Unity Of The Holy Spirit.

Not Longer Loved Or Fostered By Religion, Beauty Is Lifted From Its Face As A Mask, And Its Absence Exposes Features On That Face Which Threaten To Become Incomprehensible To Man.

The Greatest Tragedy In The History Of Christianity Was Neither The Crusades Nor The Reformation Nor The Inquisition, But Rather The Split That Opened Up Between Theology And Spirituality At The End Of The Middle Ages.