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Gaining a sense of the prose and understanding more. Enjoying it now!

"'Nothing, my lord and love,' answered the Countess faintly; 'something there was that I would have told you, but your anger has driven it from my recollection."

"The humanity of the "first Adam," the "man of earth," carries within itself, I would say, a particular potentiality (which is capacity and readiness) for receiving all that the "second Adam" became, the heavenly Man, namely, Christ: what he became in his resurrection." P. 407 -- on Christ being the fulfillment of Adam and the entire human race.

Reads a bit too much like a pop history book. Some of the theological debates are very sloppily portrayed. This book's primary virtue is how easy it is to read, but I am not sure if that is really a virtue in the long run.

"Marriage and procreation do not definitively determine the original and fundamental meaning of being a body ... marriage and procreation only give concrete reality to that meaning in the dimensions of history ... the "spousal" meaning of the body in the resurrection to the future life will perfectly correspond ... to the fact that this image is realized in the communion of persons." P. 401

"Greater freedom brought with it arrogance and south. We began envying and attacking one another, making war on ourselves with weapons formed from words ... in our blindness, however, we made no effort to propitiate the Deity but, like atheists assumed that our affairs went unnoticed, and we went from one wickedness to another... then it was that the Lord humiliated his daughter Zion." P. 260 on persecution of 303

"If any church, then, regards this epistle as Paul's, it should be commended, since men of old had good reason to hand it down as his. But who wrote the epistle only God knows." Origen on Hebrews. P. 207.

"Nevertheless this (primacy of the spirit over the body) should not be understood as a definitive "victory" over the body. The resurrection will consist in the perfect participation of all that is bodily in man in all that is spiritual in him. At the same time, it will consist in the perfect realization of what is personal in man." P. 392

Small, weak, and despised, she had put on the great, invincible champion: Christ. P. 157. Lovely description of Blandina, a female martyr.

The God whom the Sadducees "deprive" of this power, is no longer the true God of their Fathers, but the God of their hypotheses and interpretations. Christ, on the other hand, has come to bear witness to the God of Life in the whole truth of his power that unfolds over man's life. P. 387

What is at issue is rather an extremely important and fundamental sphere of values to which man cannot remain indifferent because of the dignity of humanity, because of the personal character and eloquence of the human body. Through works of art and the activity of the audiovisual media, this whole content and these values can be formed and deepened, but they can also be deformed and destroyed "in man's heart." P 373

An old book and the writing style almost guarantees I won't fully appreciate all I should. But I love the leather pocket sized version I have. I wish more fiction was this size! Very fun to have a book in my pocket, if desired.

Art should be accused of "pornovision" just as some writing has been and is being accused of "pornography". The one as well as the other happens ... when in a work of art or by audiovisual media one violates the body's right to intimacy ... and when one violates that deep order of gift and reciprocal self-giving, which is inscribed in feminity and masculinity across the whole structure of the human being.

Back in the saddle, Garrett.