imagination. Reason becomes the abyss between the unveiling of God’s self and the response of the human mind. In contrast, some have resisted the understanding of revelation as an external event that subsequently has to be appropriated by human reason. Rather than an unveiling of God, revelation is understood by this perspective as an unveiling of the human soul. The self-manifestation of God calls, in the first place, for an exercise not of reason but of the imagination. Involved in this operation
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