As James Daane observes: “The mystery of an event in which a human being speaks God’s words and God thereby speaks his Word through human words cannot be explained in human language without recourse to paradox. It is clear, [however], that both what Jesus says and how he says it point to the awesome mystery of the nature of [Christian] proclamation.”3 No wonder Paul came to Corinth saying, “I … [declare] to you the [mystery] of God” (1 Cor. 2:1). With this awesome understanding of the incarnational
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