God. Indeed, it has been taken as a kind of dogmatic axiom that Almighty God, as Immense, Eternal, Holy, and Infinite, cannot be comprehended by the particular, bounded, and sin-bound creature. Yet it is the modern era that has made the impossibility of creaturely knowledge of the inner Life of God nearly canonical. Of course, one reverts immediately to Immanuel Kant, the giant of modern Protestant dogmatics, as if “adverting to the best explanation.” True it is that Kant aimed to awaken us all from
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