Ignatius Press has posted an excerpt from Hans Urs von Balthasar's book In the Fullness of Faith: On the Centrality of the Distinctively Catholic, with the article title "Jesus is Catholic." Here's a taste:
"So, in the distinction between Father and Son, we discern simultaneously the unity of the divine essence, and, within it, the possibility of uniting those qualities that seem to us irreconcilable. The famous Catholic "and"--Scripture "and" Tradition, etc.--which is the object of Protestant criticism, has its true origin here, and here alone."
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