Behold The Pierced One: An Approach to a Spiritual Christology (Biblia.com)

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In this profound and illuminating work, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger turns the gaze of an accomplished theologian upon the crucified Savior. This synthetic and meditative work is theological without being abstract or dry, and spiritual without being sentimental. The pierced heart of Christ must be the heart of theology and Christian life as well. Proceeding from the prayerful dialogue between the...

mountain” is always the realm of prayer, of being with the Father. It was to this “mountain” that Jesus had taken the Three who formed the core of the community of the Twelve: Peter, James and John. “As he was praying, the appearance of his countenance was altered”, Luke tells us (9:29). Thus he makes it plain that the Transfiguration only renders visible what is actually taking place in Jesus’ prayer: he is sharing in God’s radiance and hence in the manner in which the true meaning of the Old Testament

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