Christian thinkers, like everyone else, must accept their situatedness in language (i.e., history, culture, tradition). But they must also dispute the implication that such situatedness justifies either irresponsible play or joyless despair, for the story of language ends not with Babel but with Pentecost. Pentecost is especially important for understanding catholicity: the Spirit did not create church unity by creating a common tongue but ministered the Word of God to the assembled crowd in such a way that each person heard it in his or her own native language (Acts 2:8). Apparently there is not one language of heaven but many.