“present and fruitful in the Church the mystery of Christ, who promised to remain with his own ‘always, to the close of the age’ (Matt. 28:20).”4 In Aquinas’ thought, the general themes of sonship, sacrifice, and satisfaction find their methodological and substantive underpinnings in the biblical and theological doctrine of man created in the image of God, imago Dei. In the early 1950s, a popular Dominican author expressed this startling view: “So vital
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