Revelation

The word refers to the act in which God shows himself, not the objectified result of this act. And because this is so, the receiving subject is always also a part of the concept of “revelation”. Where there is no one to perceive “revelation”, no re-vel-ation has occurred, because no veil has been removed.

By definition, revelation requires someone who apprehends it. [...] if Bonaventure is right, then revelation precedes Scripture and becomes deposited in Scripture but is not simply identical with it. This in turn means that revelation is always something greater than what is merely written down. And this again means that there can be no such thing as pure sola scriptura (“by Scripture alone”), because an essential element of Scripture is the Church as understanding subject, and with this the fundamental sense of tradition is already given.