the beauty and necessity of the theologian’s task could be made visible at this point.… But [the theologian] can only do this provided he himself enters that “laboratory” of unity and freedom … where his own will is refashioned, where he allows himself to be expropriated and inserted into the divine will, where he advances toward that God-likeness through which the kingdom of God can come.62 Benedict bids the theologian and exegete to place himself in service to this divine plan. “We have to enter