Top Highlights

• When one conception of God has ceased to have meaning or relevance, it has been quietly discarded and replaced by a new theology.
• it is far more important for a particular idea of God to work than for it to be logically or scientifically sound. As soon as it ceases to be effective it will be changed—sometimes for something radically different.
• transcendence, the ideas were to be found within the mind of man. We moderns experience thinking as an activity, as something that we do. Plato envisaged it as something which happens to the mind:
• AS A CHILD, I had a number of strong religious beliefs but little faith in God. There is a distinction between belief in a set of propositions and a faith which enables us to put our trust in them.
• The Roman Catholicism of my childhood was a rather frightening creed.