Sublime

Lombard’s eagerness to distance himself from the language of the humanity as a homo assumptus, a complete individual entering into union with the Word, leads him to a theory that risks evacuating the humanity of its coherence as a genuine item in the created world.

ever claim to have been divinely inspired.

the focus on Jesus as a continuous human subject, born, maturing, dying.

Aquinas keeps two things firmly in view here – the necessity of affirming that the sonship of the Word is eternally and intrinsically an aspect of divine life; and the essential importance of understanding that the Persons of the Godhead are one in action.

human belief systems are good at absorbing contradictions into their thinking.

I am not sure I do accept God, or how God has been traditionally defined or understood.

We should have the courage and determination to maintain a state of resolute irresolution, because that is all our situation honestly allows us.

What the Incarnation cannot mean – whether it involves one divine Person or three – is that a divine hypostatic agency is added to or, worse, displaces, an existing finite principle of personal agency.

They tell us that ‘God’ is not an idea contained in a form of words but a way of being towards others and towards Being itself. Reverent. Expectant. Wordless. Never controlling, because love and goodness cannot be compelled. We should do good for its own sake as if God did not exist.