Spirituality: Karl Rahner, S.J., on the description of Jesus

The incarnate word is the absolute symbol of God in the world, filled as nothing else can be with what is symbolized. He is not merely the presence and revelation of what God is in himself. He is also the expressive presence of what – or rather who – God wished to be, in free grace, to the world, in such a way that this divine attribute, once so expressed, can never be reversed, but is and remains final and unsurpassable.