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Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) reflects on the birth of Jesus (Luke 2:6-7), observing that "without the holy night, there is no theology." He reminds us that theology's purpose is to "glorify God's mystery precisely as mystery."
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Without the holy night, there is no theology. “God is revealed in flesh,” the God-human Jesus Christ—that is the holy mystery that theology came into being to protect and preserve. How we fail to understand when we think that the task of theology is to solve the mystery of God, to drag it down to the flat, ordinary wisdom of human experience and reason! Its sole office is to preserve the miracle as miracle, to comprehend, defend, and glorify God’s mystery precisely as mystery. This and nothing else, therefore, is what the early church meant when, with never flagging zeal, it dealt with the mystery of the Trinity and the person of Jesus Christ.
—Dietrich Bonhoeffer, God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas
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