Sublime

The language of two individuals unmistakeably suggests exactly what we have proposed that classical Christology sets out to dismantle: a picture of reality in which finite and infinite agencies operate in the same mode, the same metaphysical territory.

The challenge is to acknowledge our capacity for error without letting it paralyse the will to action. All our judgements should be hedged against the possibility that we may be wrong.

No, a fear of ourselves, because we know what we are capable of doing to each other when we are possessed by these convictions.

humanity’s most intractable disagreements.

there is an analogy between the way in which the Word unites with Jesus in a union without confusion or separation (to borrow the language of Chalcedon) and the way in which Jesus unites with the believing community.

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

It is rife in Christianity, which has a passion for proclaiming its confident solutions

have to commit yourself to the manifesto your party has adopted, usually somewhere along a spectrum that ranges, in Macaulay’s language, from reckless empiricism at one end to ignorant bigotry at the other. Or to put it in more temperate language, between those who find change and experiment seductive and those who find it repellent, the old tensio

suffering is the greatest problem that confronts the religious consciousness – by which I mean the sort of mind that can’t help asking if there is any meaning in or beyond the universe.