Theological writing always transgresses itself, just as theological speech feeds on the silence in which, at last, it speaks correctly. (Jean-Luc Marion)

Theological writing always transgresses itself, just as theological speech feeds on the silence in which, at last, it speaks correctly.

Jean-Luc Marion

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