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ty to be âÂÂtouchedâ by God, admitting its own
limitations before the mystery, while striving to
investigate, with the discipline proper to reason,
the inexhaustible riches of this mystery.
Theology also shares in the ecclesial form
of faith; its light is the light of the believing sub-
ject which is the Church. This implies, on the one
hand, that theology must be at the service of the
faith of Christians, that it must work humbly to
protect and deepen the faith of everyone, especial-
ly ordinary believers. On the other hand, because
it draws its life from faith, theology cannot con-
sider the magisterium of the Pope and the bishops
in communion with him as something extrinsic,
a limitation of its freedom, but rather as one of
its internal, constitutive dimensions, for the mag-
isterium ensures our contact with the primordial
source and thus provides the certainty of attaining
to the word of Christ in all its integrity.
