Quoting Walter Kasper:
On the cross the incarnation of God reaches its true meaning and purpose. The entire Christ-event must therefore be understood in terms of the cross. On the cross God's self-renouncing love is embodied with ultimate radical-ness. The cross is the utmost that is possible to God in his self-surrendering love; it is "that than which a greater cannot be thought"; it is the unsurpassable self-definition of God. This self-renunciation or emptying is therefore not a self-abandonment and not a self-de-divinization of God...but the revelation of the divine God...God need not strip himself of his omnipotence t be able to surrender oneself and give oneself away; and it requires omnipotence to be able to take oneself back in the giving and to preserve the independence and freedom of the recipient. Only an almighty love can give itself wholly to the other and be a helpless love."
-Walter Kasper, The God of Jesus Christ, translation Mathhew J. O'Connell (NY: Crossroad).
The power of divine Love is shown in the powerlessness of the cross - Ilia Delio
Evolution bears witness to the fidelity of divine love because every cosmic death is, in some way, transformed into new life. -Delio
The very act of creation reflects something of a 'divine crucifixion,' for in creation God reveals his power to be his unconditional love for the world...The cross reveals the to us the heart of God because it reveals the vulnerability of God's love. - Hans Urs von Balthasar
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