Theology's proper concern

For theology's proper concern is with the supernatural mystery of "things divine as they are in themselves" (res divinae prout sunt in se). This is not to say that theology is able to make the supernatural mysteries of faith comprehensible, that it succeeds where philosophy fails. On the contrary, for Przywara, following Augustine, theology is precisely a reductio in mysterium, "an entry into the mystery of God in order more deeply 'to grasp his incomprehensibility as such.'"...theology is, properly speaking, a reduction to the Deus tamquam ignotus of Aquinas and to the "superluminous darkness" of the Areopagite. And so, while theology is always already positively "in" philosophy, it is always also "beyond" its grasp; hence Przywara's succinct formula "theology in-and-beyond philosophy."

—John Betz, "After Barth: A New Introduction to Erich Przywara's Analogia Entis (2011)