“In Jesus, God really becomes a mystery, makes himself known as the unknown, speaks as the eternally Silent One.”

The Epistle to the Romans (1918; 1921)
Context: The revelation in Jesus, just because it is the revelation of the righteousness of God is at the same time the strongest conceivable veiling and unknowableness of God. In Jesus, God really becomes a mystery, makes himself known as the unknown, speaks as the eternally Silent One.<!-- p. 73

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Swiss Protestant theologian 1886–1968

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