describe the ultimate structures of “reality,” to elaborate a fundamental ontology, whether of “Being” or “communion,” which then comes to constitute the content of revelation itself, so substituting the explanation for that which it attempts to explain. Rather, the aim of the theological project responding to Christ’s question is to articulate, in the face of perceived aberrations, the canon of truth as precisely as possible, constantly returning, as Polycarp urged his readers in the early second
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