Summary: What Paul calls the Great is that action of God with the world, which, through creation, revelation, and redemption, remains always history, action, drama, event, and has its center in the fullness of time, the incarnation. To experience the world and life in this way was the purpose of the thirteen Christ hymns The Heart of the World, in which the often kitschy idea of the Sacred Heart of Jesus was to be restored to its cosmic dimension, and even more, to the unfathomable, ultimately trinitarian interior of the hypostatic union.