"Who Can Declare His Generation?" Divine Incomprehensibility and Human Reason
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The Pro-Nice Scene Doctrine of Incomprehensibility
What divine incomprehensibility nullifies is not human rationality per se, but human reasons' pretensions to divinity. It confronts it with a reality too profound, too full to be circumscribed by finite thought. contemplation of the incomprehensible constellates the proper end of creaturely intellect,. knowledge and fellowship with the infinite and uncreated holy trinity. This quote from Hillary comes up in two key places in the medieval tradition - Peter Longbalds or Tsumma Contregentile.
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