Christ's holy humanity as embracing all that is possible in this world, as plaything and universal instrument of love: abraded by rolling in every gutter and every possible hell, shattered in the abyss of all nights, cast up to the heights of bliss, fragmented as food in a billion places and yet located above space, no longer time-bound as we are and not yet outside of time but always sharing in our own temporal condition and history. . . .
In Christ is found the experience of all situations, existentially: the sum total of the world's reality.
Hans Urs von Balthasar,
The Grain of Wheat, p 56
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The Grain of Wheat, p 56
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