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Co-Workers of the Truth 2/28

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Excerpts from Co-Workers of The TruthEvery love bears within it a universal tendency.  The world to which this you belongs has a different aspect since I love.  One who loves would like to embrace the whole world in and with the beloved.  My meeting with the One gives me the universe anew.  Granted, love is a choice.  It is directed, not to the “millions”, but to this one individual.  But precisely in this choice, in this person, reality as a whole appears to me in a different light.  Pure universalism, universal philanthropy (”be embraced, you millions”) is empty, whereas the very definite and determinative choice that falls on this one person gives me again the world and all its peoples - and gives me to them.  This observation is important because it is a starting point from which we can begin to understand why God’s universalism (God wills all men to be saved) makes use of the particularism of the history of salvation (from Abaraham to the Church).  Concern for the salvation of others must  not lead us to ignore more or less this particularism of God: salvation history and world history must not be regarded as identical entities just because God’s concern for them must be extended to all.  Such direct universalism would destroy the true totality of God’s action, which becomes whole precisely through the process of selection and election.

From: Auf Christus Schauen, pp.91-92

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