Does God Speak? by Regis Martin

By Regis Martin, Crisis Magazine, May 29, 2025

Regis Martin is Professor of Theology and Faculty Associate with the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life at the Franciscan University of Steubenville. He earned a licentiate and a doctorate in sacred theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. …

How do Catholics justify their assertion that God came into the world and spoke to mankind about Himself?

If this were day one in a course on the Theology of Christ, the first order of business would be to issue the following disclaimer, which is that not even the least glimpse into the mystery of Jesus is possible without first answering one very big question. Leave it out and the whole inquiry regarding who He was and the work He came into this world to do would simply implode on the launching pad.

And that is to ask, in all seriousness, whether in fact God has at any time or in any place actually spoken to the human race? Does God speak? Has he ever told us anything at all? About Himself, certainly, but also about us and the world He brought into being. Placing us, we like to think, at the very summit of the stair, the crowning jewel of His creative genius. “The glory of God,” says Irenaeus, “is man fully alive.”

Is that true? And if so, how much credit for that belongs to the One who came to save us from our sins?

Meanwhile, here is how the Hebrew psalmist put it, asking of God: ….

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