"God, rich in mercy" (Eph 2:4) is the one whom Jesus Christ revealed to us as Father: his Son, in himself, manifested him to us and made him known to us.

The more the mission carried out by the Church is centred on man, the more it is, so to speak, anthropocentric, the more it must be confirmed and realised theocentrically, that is, oriented in Jesus Christ towards the Father. While the various currents of human thought in the past and present have been and continue to be inclined to divide and even oppose theocentrism and anthropocentrism, the Church on the other hand, following Christ, seeks to unite them in human history in an organic and profound manner. And this is also one of the fundamental principles, and perhaps the most important, of the Magisterium of the last Council.

[Pope John Paul II, Dives in Misericordia n.1]