From Pontifications:
It is popular today, as perhaps it always has been, to assert that God reveals himself in many ways. This is of course true. But the creedal claim is more than just an assertion of divine revelation. It is a claim that Jesus of Nazareth reveals God because Jesus is God. In each generation the Church must make a stand against the Arian attenuation of the Christian confession. It’s easy to say that Jesus gives us a glimpse of the divine. Doesn’t everything? As one German philosopher responded to the charge that he had denied the divinity of Jesus: “I have never denied anyone’s divinity!” Believing that Jesus reveals “something” about God does not require my conversion, my repentance, my death and rebirth. I can believe that Jesus reveals “God,” while at the same time maintaining my preferred religiosity, without fear of being confronted by the divine Other who objectively challenges my idolatries and self-interpretations. It’s quite a different matter if Jesus is in fact the one God.
Because God has embodied himself as the son of Mary, his revelation to mankind is definitive, unique, and unsurpassable. God has no other Word to speak to us but the man named Jesus Christ. This is why the Church has always insisted that the period of revelation is closed–not because God has become silent but because all further divine communication must conform to the revelation given once and for all in the Nazarene.
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A Thinking Reed 
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