6 Quotes by Brian Gregor

The self is curved inward, cut off from God and from the neighbor, and therefore ultimately cut off from true self-understanding as well.

This is the true via crucis: the cross destroys the self-justifying ego, putting it to death.

Faithful selfhood is not merely a matter of one’s personal religious journey or the egoistic concern of the individual self for its own private salvation. Rather, the self is a participant – both patient and agent – in the much larger narrative of God’s reconciliation of the world to himself through Christ.

In Christ, the other is given as the neighbor. I encounter the other as one for whom Christ became human, was crucified, and resurrected, and this sets them free to be who they are.

This is also the problem with idolatry, which simply reinforces the incurvature of the self through the delusion that one is actually in contact with some transcendent point of unity.

Sin distorts the relationality that is ontologically constitutive of humanity: rather than being for God and the neighbor, the self tries to bring all exteriority within the domain of its power.