At the Foot of Babel: Disclosure and Concealment

In Vestrucci Andrea (ed.), Beyond Babel: Religion and Linguistic Pluralism. Springer Verlag. pp. 49-57 (2023)
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When it comes to God-language, we must speak symbolically rather than literally. God’s unsearchable mystery requires that we address God only via multi-valent symbols that both connect us with God yet protect God from total disclosure. During the axial period 2500 years ago we learned that symbols resonate at the intersection of the beyond and the intimate, the transcendent and the immanent, the ultimate and the mundane. In Martin Luther’s Theology of the Cross we learned that God can even be revealed under the opposite—that is, eternal life is revealed under temporal death.

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