In her post below, Cathy uses a phrase that is new to me. I first encountered it two weeks ago in a paper a student submitted in a doctoral seminar. Here is Cathys sentence: "All the great thinkers of the Church, in the end, were great because they lived into the question mark" [her italics].I leave aside here whether this, to the degree that I can even undeerstand it, is a good description of the history of Christian thought, in order to ask where does the verb-form "live-into" come from? (Southern California, perhaps? ) May I ask what it is thought to say that cant be said otherwise?

Rev. Joseph A. Komonchak, professor emeritus of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America, is a retired priest of the Archdiocese of New York.

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