Getting to the Point

The essence of an image consists in the fact that it represents something… with the fact that it goes beyond itself… thus the image of God ...

Human beings can only be healthy when they are true and when they stop suppressing and destroying the truth. In the Beginning, 80 Re...

We can say today with a new certitude and joyousness that the human being is indeed a divine project which only the creating Intelligence w...

The technical and scientific attitude has produced a certain kind of certitude… this has give humankind a certain freedom from anxiety and...

[In Genesis 1] the words ‘God said’ appear ten times… in this way the creation narrative anticipates the Ten Commandments… [they are] an ec...

Previously human beings could only transform particular things in nature; nature itself was not the object… of their activity. Now, howeve...

Sin has become a suppressed subject… [which] has nonetheless remained real. What is remarkable to me is the aggressiveness, always on the ve...

The relationship of creature to Christ, of the first to the second Adam, signifies that the human person is a being en route, a being charac...

Marx was the one who said that humankind should no longer inquire into its origins and that to do so would be to act foolishly. Marx’s inten...

When the human person is no longer seen as standing under God’s protection and bearing God’s breath, then he begins to be viewed in a utilit...

We must not in our day conceal our faith in creation. We may not conceal it, for only if it is true that the universe comes from freedom, lo...

The universe is not the product of darkness and unreason. It comes from intelligence, freedom, and from the beauty that is identical with lo...

Being made in the image of God means that the human person is a being of word and of love, a being moving toward Another, oriented toward gi...

“We can only be really creative if we are in harmony with the Creator of the universe. We can only really serve the earth if we accept it un...