"God is the name of the blanket we throw over mystery to give it shape." - AC/DC's road manager, Barry Taylor.
"God is the name of the blanket we throw over mystery to give it shape." - AC/DC's road manager, Barry Taylor.
God, in short, is not a being but is at once “beyond being” (in the sense that he transcends the totality of existing things) and also absolute “Being itself” (in the sense that he is the source and ground of all things).
David Bentley Hart • The Experience of God
The word “God” is like a stick of dynamite. It remains valuable precisely because its utterance sets off such potent cultural and conceptual reverberations. Whitehead, in his own way, used it to name something at once tender and cosmic, intangible yet inescapable, the poet of the world who does not create the world from nothing but helps us make me... See more
Matthew David Segall • Reflections on my dialogue with Peter Rollins
Reminding ourselves that the Christian god has no name speaks to the ultimately ineffable nature of the divine in orthodox Christianity. It reminds us of the necessary unnameable nature of the god of our faith.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
Reminding ourselves that the Christian god has no name speaks to the ultimately ineffable nature of the divine in orthodox Christianity. It reminds us of the necessary unnameable nature of the god of our faith.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
We may not use the name “God.” We may think in terms of Reality, Nature, The First Cause, The Behavior of the World, The Other, The All, The Ground of Being, The Force of Evolution, The Life Spirit, or Things As They Really Are. Each of us creates an image of the supreme mystery that feeds us, and we are always in a relationship with it.