Sublime

The difference is that I no longer have any interest in understanding it or justifying it theoretically or theologically. I am only interested in its practical import. Only in what it prompts me to do. And what it prompts me to stand against.

There is an old Scholastic distinction between religious treatises written “de Deo uno” and those written “de Deo trino”: between, that is, those that are “about the one God” known to persons of various faiths and philosophies and those that are “about the Trinitarian God” of Christian doctrine.

ethics is about responding not to human beings in general but to human beings in particular—and in all their particularity.

Whatever justification they propose, the suffering in the world is always disproportionate to the religious explanation offered. Which is why we have to think a bit more about the ‘God’ of religion as opposed to the ‘true’ or ‘real’ God,

What Thomas’s claim amounts to is that the ‘act of being’ in virtue of which the Word of God is the Word of God is the sole ground of the act of being in virtue of which Jesus of Nazareth is Jesus of Nazareth considered as an active finite agent; and the implication clearly is that there can be in Jesus no finite act of being in virtue of which he

John Barton reminds us that nowhere in the Hebrew texts themselves do they