The core of Christianity is simply history. God not only spoke into this history but embodied himself in a human destiny. The outlook to the end of history is lifted into a completely new hope: the hope for the salvation of mankind and the cosmos as a whole on the basis of God's free entering into all the darkness of the world's destiny. This is incomparable as an offer and a chance. If one falls out of it, one sinks back into Jewish messianisms and pagan paths of flight from the world.
-Hans Urs von Balthasar
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