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• Unless we recognize and admit our own personal and cultural viewpoints, we will never know how to decentralize our own perspective, and we will live with a high degree of illusion and blindness that brings much suffering into the world. I think this is what Simone Weil (1909–1943) meant in saying that the love of God is the source of all truth. Onl...
• True Christianity never believed in either perfect order or total chaos, but a reality fraught with contradictions.
• Great religion always said that the best we could hope for would be metaphor, symbol, and image. Here, we do not know as much as we are known; we do not make the connections as much as realize that we are connected. Then we can only kneel and kiss the ground. The logical mind gives up its tyranny.
• Modernism gave us predictability that felt good; now someone else is in charge and we must surrender to both tragedy and utter gratuity. It sounds much more biblical, even if also much more frightening.
• The whole Bible is about meeting God in the actual, in the incarnate moment, in the scandal of particularity, and not in educated theories—so much so that it is rather amazing that we ever tried to codify and control the whole thing. The Bible seems to always be saying that this life is indeed a journey, a journey always initiated and concluded by ...