"The 'place' of the world is in God Himself, which means: in His trinitarian life, which is an endless flow of divine persons from themselves, to each other, into themselves. Continually relevant self-giving. (…) Within this flow of absolute love, the created world cannot be an immovable point. For the persons, giving themselves to each other, the world is a welcome opportunity for gifting: the creating Father gives the world to the redeeming Son, who, "after the defeat of all enemies," will present it to the Father at His feet as a completed kingdom...
(Hans Urs von Balthasar /1905–1988/, excerpt from the text Meditating Christianly)
