“Remember, after all, that the Gospel is full of paradoxes, that man is himself a living paradox, and that according to the Fathers of the Church, the Incarnation is the supreme paradox.”

— Henri de Lubac

Author's Preface, p. 8
Paradoxes of Faith (1987)

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Jesuit theologian and cardinal 1896–1991

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