Stop on Christianity (68)
" The specificity of Christianity is evident in the event of Jesus Christ on top of revelation, fulfillment of the promises of God and mediator of the encounter between man and God. Him "that God has revealed to us" (cf. John 1, 18) is the unique and definitive Word given to mankind "(Vatican II Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation Dei Verbum , No. 4). Saint John of the Cross has expressed this truth in an admirable way: "Once he gave us his Son, his Word - the only and final - he has told us everything at once and once in this one word and it has nothing more to say. [...] For what he said to the prophets in parts, he told entirely in his Son, giving us all this is his Son. That is why he who would now ask the Lord and seek visions or revelations, not only would be folly, but it would be an insult to God, not fixing his eyes entirely upon Christ and looking for something else or something new '( Ascent of Mount Caramel 2, 22).
Benedict XVI, Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Verbum Domini , September 30, 2010, No. 14.
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