discipline. To use a patristic expression, it is mystagogical in character: biblical interpretation leads the reader into the mystery of God in Christ. The theologian’s terminus does not lie in the history behind the text or even in the text itself. The theologian attends to Scripture as a sacramental means of entering into the mystery of God. Theology (and Scripture as a means) aims at nothing less than the divine life itself. The distinction I am alluding to here is reminiscent of the sharp debate
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