The Hidden Life: The Mysteries of the Life of Jesus

“The thirty hidden years . . . may be understood as a mysterium of the whole history of the world . . . as a ‘sacrament’ that sanctifies and gives meaning to our age and to every age.”

“In Nazareth, God’s Son sanctifies the ordinary, insofar as he recognizes it as a gift offered to him by the Father, whom he must follow in obedience.”

“The dissolution of the subculture is the context in which the Second Vatican Council, and its understanding of the church-world relation in modernity, was received in the United States.”

“Precisely in order to think with the ‘mind’ of Christ, the theologian has to assume the guardianship of human wonder—to enter into it, remain in it, and cultivate it.”