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Kasper concludes that the Council of Chalcedon provided "a valid and permanently binding" version of what the New Testament teaches, "namely [that] in Jesus Christ, God Himself has entered into a human history." All the dogmas and investigations of the mystery of God in Christ, he concedes, "come up against an insuperable limit of thought, speech and sympathetic insight." To Kasper, however, this limitation is actually "something extremely positive, not darkness but excess of light, dazzling to our eyes."