but as God Himself—personally present and met in the Church in His very personal identity. Not Scripture, not conciliar definitions, not theology can express Him fully; each can only point to some aspects of His existence, or exclude wrong interpretations of His being or acts. No human language, however, is fully adequate to Truth itself, nor can it exhaust it.… This is the authentic message maintained most explicitly by the Byzantine “mystical” tradition of Maximus the Confessor, Symeon the New