I just started reading Hilarion Alfeyev’s Jesus Christ: His Life and Teaching; Volume 1 The Beginning of the Gospel (St.
Vladimir’s Press, 2018; translated from the Russian original). In the forward the
author writes:
The Gospel story of
Jesus Christ from the perspective of interpretation may be compared to a collection
of treasures amassed over two thousand years in a safe with two locks. In order
to touch this treasure, we have first of all to open the safe, and in order to
open it, two keys are required. One key is the belief that Jesus was fully man
with all the attributes of a flesh-and-blood person. However, we need a second
key also—belief that Jesus was God incarnate. Without this key the safe will
not open, and the treasures will not glisten with their original brilliance:
the Gospel image of Christ will not come to the reader in all its resplendent
beauty (xiii).
JTR
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