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there is no knowledge that is arrived at without recourse to persuasion. All knowledge is, in the end, simply belief held very confidently—confidently enough that we feel completely safe acting on that knowledge. As
The difference between “knowledge” and “belief” is simply one of degree of certainty—more or less—but knowledge is never completely and indisputably certain beyond all doubt and interpretation.
The Greek words from which we take the various words we use for miracles—“sign,” “wonder,” and “miracle” itself—all just meant something amazing, out of the ordinary, wonder producing, awe inspiring.
chewing one’s fingernails is a habit; speaking French is a habitus: “A habitus is an acquired quality or disposition that makes it possible to act in a particular way—even inclines one to act in that way.”
For a robust, and complicated, treatment of various difficult doctrines centered around the incarnation, see Gerald O’Collins, Incarnation. O’Collins,
Precisely because God is transcendent God can contain the universe but not be contained by or exhausted by the universe.
Icons are something like sacraments in materiality: they participate in what they represent and communicate the sacredness to the believer.
tradition is the flow, the changing current, we, as Christians, live in.
Pseudo-Dionysius: “We offer worship to that which lies hidden beyond thought and beyond being.”22
faith is a “stance” we take toward the world.