Jacques-jude Lépine’s Reviews > Raising Abel: The Recovery of the Eschatological Imagination > Status Update

... [what is} catholicity: while every local culture tends to build its frontiers by means of victims, it is only if we begin from the forgiving victim that we can build a culture which has no frontiers, because we no longer have to build any order, security, or identity over against some excluded person, but the excluded one himself gives the identity by allowing us to share in the gratuity of his self-giving.

The kingdom comes not as a bulldozing universal force of secularization, but as the task of building, on every violent frontier, a little tale of the overcoming of the particularity of the group, by recovering its victims.

"After all, We're all God's children." Of which God are we the children? This can be deduced from our practical behavior...

...God is love, we all parrot this somewhat easily, which leads to no end of banalities and flights of sentimentalism in our approach of matters religious, except when we become all serious and moralistic and remember that God is just, and punishes, ans so on, so we expel and punish as if the Gospel has never been preached.