Quote of the Day; Balthasar

Despite what the title suggests, I’m not planning on starting a running “post of the day” theme on my blog. I would fail at it more than I would succeed.
Ran across this paragraph today in the book I’m reading, A Theology of History, by Hans Urs von Balthasar. It’s pretty intense.

“There are three things we cannot do: (1) we cannot carry on with natural metaphysics, natural ethics, natural jurisprudence, natural study of history, acting as though Christ were not, in the concrete, the norm of everything. Nor can we (2) lay down an unrelated “double truth” with the secular scholar and scientist on the one hand and the theologian on the other, studying the same object without any encounter or intersection between their two methods. Nor, finally, can we (3) allow the secular disciplines to be absorbed by theology as though it alone were competent in all cases because Christ alone is the norm. Precisely because Christ is the absolute he remains incommensurate with the norms of this world; and no final accord between theology and the other disciplines is possible within the limits of this world. The refusal of any such agreed demarcation on the part of theology, though it may look like and be called arrogance, is really no more than respect for the methodological demands of its subject.”