The subdivision of our proposed “theo-logic” into two volumes (the present volume and the sequel) is, in the end, an artificial one; the two parts must be seen as a whole. Theo-logic begins with the self-revelation of the triune God in the Incarnation of the divine Logos, and the Logos is the Word, the Son, and the expositor [Ausleger] of the Father.1 It is as such that he understands himself and as such that he wishes to be understood. Yet who could understand him to be such if