More Tmothy Radcliffe, O.P.

"So my thesis, vastly oversimplified, is that the slow dawning of monotheism generates [a]...double movement. There are no stories of the gods. There is just the story of God's entanglement with this particular people...Israel. And the story of Israel is not just of a particular people, but of God's relationship with humanity. And this double movement towards the particular and the universal finds its astonishing culmination in that particular human being whom the the Father declares his beloved and in whom he delights. You cannot get more particular than that! But this particular being is one in whom, according to St. Paul, 'there is neither Jew nor Greek...slave nor free...male nor female' (Galatians 3:28). Christ is the one in whom there is a place for everyone. He is both unique and universal."   Timothy Radcliffe, O.P., "The World Shall Come to Walsingham," in Sacred Space, ed. John & Eric North.