Friendship of Christ: Exploring The Humanity of Jesus Christ - Couverture souple

Benson, Robert Hugh

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1889334405 ISBN 13 : 9781889334400

Editeur : Scepter Publishers, 2009

Synopsis

It is at once the privilege and the burden of Catholics that they know so much of Jesus Christ. It is their privilege, since an intelligent knowledge of the Person and the attributes and the achievements of Incarnate God is an infinitely greater wisdom than all the rest of the sciences put together.

To have a knowledge of the Creator is incalculably a more noble thing than to have a knowledge of His Creation. Yet it is a burden as well; for the splendour of this knowledge may be so great as to blind us to the value of its details. The blaze of the Divinity to him who sees it may be so bright as to bewilder him with regard to the humanity. The unity of the wood vanishes in the perfection of the trees.

Catholics then, above all others, are prone -- through their very knowledge of the mysteries of faith, through their very apprehension of Jesus Christ as their God, their High Priest, their Victim, their Prophet and their King -- to forget that His delights are to be with the sons of men more than to rule the Seraphim, that, while His Majesty held Him on the throne of His Father, His Love brought Him down on pilgrimage that He might transform His servants into His friends.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The pages of this book contain in an abbreviated form sermons preached by Msgr Robert Hugh Benson in Rome in the Church of St. Silvestro-in-Capite, during the year of 1911. Some of them were also preached in the Carmelite Church in Kensington in 1910.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Scepter Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1889334405
• ISBN 13: 9781889334400
• Reliure: Broché
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible