Explorations in Theology V: Man Is Created

The fifth and last volume of Skizzen zur Theologie, published by Johannes Verlag in 1986 (384 pages); Ignatius Press published the English translation as Man Is Created in 2014. Its title comes from the 'principle and foundation' of the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola: man is created to praise, reverence and serve God. According to the Community of Saint John, its thirty-one essays unfold a theocentric anthropology in which the true shape of the human being is disclosed 'from above', in God's descent to man, without denying human experience, nature or desire. Essays include 'Homo creatus est', 'Three Forms of Serenity', 'Finite Time within Eternal Time', 'The Eyes of Pascal', 'On the Concept of Person', 'Person, Sex and Death', 'The Dignity of Woman', 'Mary and the Spirit' and 'The Child Jesus and Children'.