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“Theology means rational wrestling with the mystery.”

Barth quotes Hilary (De trin., 4), “The understanding of what is said is to be assumed for the sake of speaking, because the thing is not subject to speech, but the speech of the thing is subject.” Then says, “Without having this statement before us, we cannot understand the point here, and he who does not adopt this statement as his own methodological axiom is no theologian and never will be.”

“The Lord of speech is also the Lord of our hearing. The Lord who gives the Word is also the Lord who gives faith. The Lord of our hearing, the Lord who gives faith, the Lord by whose act the openness and readiness of man for the Word are true and actual, not another God but the one God in this way, is the Holy Spirit.”