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The Church has been given the (sociologically difficult) task of testifying through what she is to the absoluteness of God's loving care for the world in Christ. She has to claim catholicity, that is, totality, while being one social edifice among others. This task, from the human point of view, is a heavy burden, bound to attract to the Church and her representatives the odium of an arrogant absolutism[.]

The Absolute bends downs toward the creature, but it only reaches the creaturely level, giving it access and citizenship in the sphere of the Absolute. In other words if it is to be a self-communication of the Absolute it must be both ontological and verbal: "participation in the divine nature" without verbal communication is just as unthinkable as verbal communication without substantial participation.

"Anyone who penetrates into the mysteries of God recognizes more and more that the world as a whole is created 'for nothing', that is, out of a love that is free and has no other reason behind it; that is precisely what gives it its only plausible meaning."

For the very fact that God creates man and endows him with freedom, with his own "power", which as such is the image of God (Sir 17:3), shows clearly enough how free the Almighty is...And although man can ask to participate in this wisdom (Wis 9), there still remains a limit: at the level of being, God's freedom somehow penetrates human freedom, but man is not granted any inner access to divine freedom.

It's a mark of infinite freedom that it does not use force:For there is no compulsion in God's side, but good counsel is always available'.Exposed in this way, however, is human freedom not doomed to let man down?.because finite freedom must experience its finitude&poverty-explore the whole area of its possibilities in order to learn by experience that it can only fulfill itself by following the advice&counsel of God

"Theologians have the bad habit of interrupting the word before it has finished speaking; in the basis of some fragment they begin putting forward their own speculations, importing principles which may seem evident to man but which, from the perspective of God's word, are by no means evident."

"Only after God has uttered his absolute Yes to man can man utter his absolute No to God: genuine atheism is a post-Christian phenomenon."

"God, 'than whom nothing greater can be thought', must demonstrate his presence in the unfolding of history of revelation in such a way that it too, the drama of God and man, shows itself to be something 'than which nothing greater can be thought'."

The use of Anselm here is thought provoking.