Jan-Heiner Tück

"The Jewish roots of the Christian faith may be concealed by the concept of homoousia, but they are not forgotten; on the contrary, they are brought to bear in a particular way."

“If Odysseus can navigate the dangers of the world by being bound to the mast, how much more awesome is it that in reality Christ wrested all of humanity from the danger of death by being bound to the Cross.”

“It is precisely the materiality of things that stand over and against our consciousness— o res mirabilis —that makes us aware of the irreducible otherness of the Person of Christ.”

“The definition that the Father and Son are of the same nature bursts open the Greek concept of God using terms from Greek thought, and the abstract monotheism of the philosophical teaching about God is opened up to the biblical proposition ‘God is love.’”

"But before Jesus we become the questioned: Are we ready to be responsible for our freedom and its price, and to consent to what God does—beyond the alternative between immature dependence and indignant revolt?”