Two Critical Tasks

Indeed, it was not as though we were unaware that with an opening to the world, an aggiornamento, a broadening of the horizons, a translation of the Christian message into an intellectual language understandable by the modern world, only half is done.

The other half [ressourcement]- of at least equal importance - is a reflection of the specifically Christian element itself, a purification, a deepening, a centering of its idea, which alone renders us capable of representing it, radiating it, translating it believably in the world.

Balthasar, My Life in Retrospect, p51