![]() We think, in an age when we know how infinitely different things are, how unimportant the earth is in the vast universe, how unimportant this little speck of dust, man is in comparison. Then Jesus declares that God is like that with any sinner who repents, welcoming them, Ratzinger explains, “like a person who loves, with all the capriciousness of someone who loves.” Such a concept is so foreign to us today, says Ratzinger, that we cannot help but feel that it is a primitive artifact from when the world seemed very small to human reckoning, and to be the center of everything. ![]() When he does find it, he rejoices over it more than he does over the ninety-nine that he left in peril. His compass is the well-known parable of Jesus from Luke 15, the parable of the lost sheep, whose shepherd leaves the other ninety-nine in his flock on the arid, open plain and goes to find it. ![]() In his masterpiece Introduction to Christianity, Joseph Ratzinger boldly ventured to identify the place at which contemporary human beings, at least of the Western variety, come to grief in their understanding of God. ![]()
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