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In this volume, Balthasar looks at the Church, “the Bride of Christ,” as both unspotted and unfaithful—the Church of saints and of sinners. He goes through Scripture and Tradition looking at both sides of the Church and what they mean.

outlines of the things, creating for itself an immediate expression in these outlines and yet dwelling mysteriously closed within itself; and the more the life that appears is endowed with spirit, the more free will its self-revelation be in the areas of its sensual-material expression. Now there extends between the seeing eye and the living-intellectual objects, going beyond the distance of the separateness without however removing this, a relationship that consists of seeing into the foreign interiority,
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