As Jean Vanier poignantly expresses it, At one moment in time the “Logos” became flesh and entered history. He came to lead us all into this communion, which is the very life of God.35 A trinitarian hermeneutic will therefore always have as its goal to hear God’s address, to facilitate communion. This is not to deny the cognitive, propositional element in God’s communication but instead to insist that “an important aspect of truth gets lost when testimony is ‘objectified.’ Simply to preserve the
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