God the Unknown Saint Joseph has transformed time from a

has transformed time from a mere chronicle into the drama of salvation played out in each person and across the entire cosmos

a thirteenth-century philosopher and theologian does not immediately come to mind

Jacopone withdraws

that “from the lowest to the highest

God the Unknown Saint Joseph has transformed time from aBy Victor White, O. P. Verily thou art a hidden God: God the Unknown makes these words from the Prophet Isaiah its lynchpin. Let one suppose, either consciously or unconsciously, that he has grasped God, and still must God elude him: God is always beyond the furthest advance one can make in knowledge about him. And yet the theologians task and the believers life retain their purpose. For the point of it all, as St. Thomas Aquinas attests, is that in