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Revelation and Kingdom

2020 
Aquinas’s introduction of the notion of revelatio in the Summa theologiae begins to edge out Augustine’s idea of illuminatio. By the late fourteenth century “reuelacion” has entered English. Only beginning with Vatican I is there mention of revelatio, however, and Vatican II offers a different sense of the concept: it is Christ manifesting himself, not the content of Scripture. In effect, theological epistemology has become phenomenology. Jesus’s self-manifestation does not occur within the horizon of the world; rather, it takes place within the horizon of the Kingdom. What is revealed in Jesus’s preaching is the coming of the Kingdom in our exercise, as second nature, of ἀγάπη. This coming is unlike that of stable phenomena: the Kingdom is multi-stable, here yet to come, within yet without, weak yet strong, and so on. Revelation, properly understood after Vatican II, is the uncovering of the Kingdom in all its various facets.
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