The Unity of the Scriptures

“That which in the ‘figure’ is a sign of impotence, becomes an act of power: eros becomes agape. In this transformation, however, the figure is not lost. It becomes more resplendent . . . .”

“The Holy Spirit, who unites in himself the loving will of the Father and the Son, also incorporates the sacred writers’ loving reception of the Word into this unity—and so unites Father and Son also from within Scripture itself.”

“A closer attention to the hermeneutic of Jesus can help provide a deeper theological grounding for the spiritual sense and thus be an impetus for a renewal of biblical preaching, teaching, and prayer in the ancient tradition of spiritual understanding.”

“In this sense, Paul can say: the Gentiles are a law to themselves—not in the sense of modern liberal notions of autonomy which preclude transcendence of the subject, but in the much deeper sense that nothing belongs less to me than I myself.”