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Joseph Ratzinger – Eschatology: Death and Eternal
“The katechon must be understood as the power of the presence of Christ in history.”
(p. 160)
“Christ remains present in the world through the Church, and the Church lives from the Eucharist.”
(p. 162)
“The delaying of the final unleashing of evil is bound up with the sacramental presence of Christ in time.”
(p. 163)
Hans Urs von Balthasar – Theo-Drama, Vol. V: The Last Act
“The persistence of Christ’s mission within history takes form in the sacramental actuality of Christ’s self-giving.”
(p. 405)
“So long as Christ is really present, history cannot collapse into total negation.”
(p. 406)
Aidan Nichols OP – The Shape of Catholic Theology
“It is Christ’s eucharistic presence which delays the full manifestation of the mystery of lawlessness.”
(p. 282)
Tracey Rowland – Ratzinger’s Faith: The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI
“The Eucharist stands at the ontological centre of this sacramental restraint.”
(p. 146)
Henri de Lubac – Catholicism: Christ and the Common Destiny of Man
“So long as the Eucharist endures, the Church stands between the world and its final disintegration.”
(p. 336)
Jean-Luc Marion – God Without Being
“The saturation of evil is impossible where the gift of presence is not withdrawn.”
(p. 187)
“This presence is not conceptual but eucharistic.”
(p. 189)
David Bentley Hart – The Beauty of the Infinite
“What restrains the violence of the principalities is not force but liturgy.”
(p. 379)
Romano Guardini – The End of the Modern World
“Only where Christ remains present can the powers of chaos be restrained.”
(p. 86)