not only … the Word that Christ preached, but in the whole of the living experience of His person, thus embracing what is said and what is unsaid, what the Apostles in their turn are not able to express fully in words, but which is found in the whole reality of the Christian existence of which they speak, far transcending the framework of what has been explicitly formulated in words.136 In 1966, the same year that Congar’s landmark Tradition and Traditions was released in a single volume, his colleague,
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