Sublime

The phrase suggests that what we were given to be at birth, the role predestined for us, may yet be improvised in a different direction. Nor is religion the only stimulus to this kind of rebirth. Counselling and psychoanalysis can have the same effect, as they encourage us to explore our own history and identify the facts and forces that formed us.

they too easily switch from expressions of belief to defiant statements of fact. That’s where their danger lies.

A symbol became something that stood for or represented something else. It made us re-member or re-call something else.

whenever a spiritual revelation is enshrined in an institution invented to carry its meaning through time, it is easy to understand how its guardians can become overprotective of the treasure they are responsible for, especially if their access to the original vision is theoretical rather than experiential, something they read about, rather than so

as it is, the content of ‘being Jesus of Nazareth’ is grounded in and determined by the esse that is ‘being the eternal Word’.

a crucial part of Christian ministry is clarifying the antithesis between Christianity and every other system.

the Word is not an individual instance of divinity in the way that Jesus is an instance of humanity, and so to deny that there is any isomorphism between the divine supposit and what we normally understand by human individuality.

Personal relatedness between divine and human will unites divine life with the highest of the levels of finite agency; and this relation transformingly illuminates how human intelligence and love are rooted in infinite agency.

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