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Considered by many the bright jewel among the many enriching books of Cardinal Henri de Lubac, this work is a hymn to the beauty of the Church. Having suffered unjustly under Church leadership for a time, The Splendor of the Church is a personal testimony of this great theologian’s humility and love of the Church of Christ. It is also a classic work in theology. Cardinal de Lubac’s profound...

Church is without beauty, as she is if she is not the tree whose root is the Passion of Christ.69 The knowledge on which she prides herself is false, and the wisdom that is her ornament is false, if both are not summed up in Christ;70 if her light is not “light illuminated”, coming wholly from Christ,71 she certainly has us captive in the shadow of death. All her teaching is a lie if she does not announce the Truth which is Christ;72 all her glory is vanity if she does not find it in the humility
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