De Lubac on Theology, Life of the Faithful Mind

This was awesome:

The life of the mind cannot be conceived without an element of constant seeking: "As long as we live, we necessarily must always seek."  As with the life of the body, it cannot help giving rise to "restlessness."  This is so even in the firmest declaration of faith.  The proclamation of every dogma is like the lifting of every seal in the Apocalypse: "it is a kind of unleashing of problems on to mankind..."

Theology, in remaining subject to that divine object as it is authentically put before it, is never without solid roots or precise guidelines. It is fiirmly orientated...Nor can it, in the nature of things, ever arrive at any other theory that is final, complete, and totally satisfying, for such a termination belongs neither to earth nor heaven...it is one of the forms of the fruitfulness of the mysterythat it gives birth in man's mind to a movement which can never end...--Henri Cardinal de Lubac, The Mystery of the Supernatural, 164-166.