ABSTRACT
If revelation is understood as the self-giving of God in Christ such that people have knowledge of Him, then our truth claims concerning God must have their origin in an event God Himself executes. The structure of revelation is therefore Trinitarian, though whether the event of Christ is an open one or a closed one people leave undecided as yet. Where a gap opens between people's naming and people's experience of the world, the communication of meaning is paramount and therefore Aristotle calls for a style which is proper for the subject matter to be conveyed. The necessary relation between the noetic and the ontological, the solution to the universal knowability of the individual substance, rests, finally, upon the rhetorical and the theological. What remains and is safeguarded in allegorical reading is textuality itself, writing, the body of the scriptural text.
