specifically Christophanic) disclosure.34 The paradoxical language of the invisible making himself visible points, therefore, also to the particularity of that manifestation in Christ. The silence of modern Protestant divinity regarding the doctrine of the beatific vision may render us susceptible to tone-deafness when it comes to the words of Jesus’s promise that if we have seen him, we have seen his Father (John 14:9). Further, it may lessen our grasp of the deep reality underneath that promise,