Il Dio inconcepibile secondo san Paolo: una immagine inimmaginabile

Paul’s reflection on God is inevitably conditioned by his euaggélion; and from this he reaches the conclusion of the inaccessible, even scandalous dimension of God in the christian faith by way of human reason/wisdom. Three texts in particular will be examined: 1 Cor 1:18-25; Rom 11:33 and 10:20. Together they converge towards the idea of a God that is not at all imaginable through logic. These three texts encompass respectively the three aspects of the divine mystery: that which is directly christological, that is his hidden presence at the Cross; that which is historico-salvific, that is consistent with the fact that God accepts Gentiles together with Israel; and that which is soteriological, which is a variant of the previous point and which constitutes access to God without following the more rational way of observing the Law.