Keeping Alive the Rumor of God. Martin Camroux

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СКАЧАТЬ I had been lied to.”106 His naïve faith collapsed at that moment. Theologies do not necessarily lie (though you would be unwise to assume they never do) but they are inevitably at best truth mixed with error, reality with illusion. We always need to examine the beliefs we hold critically and seek to go deeper and further. More often than we like to admit we simply have to say we were wrong. Intelligence is not knowing everything without questioning, but rather the willingness to question everything you think you know. Otherwise you end up a closed system—to use Sylvia Plath’s analogy, it’s like being in a bell jar, forever rebreathing our own fetid air.

All ideas of God are open to change. Life changes them, new ideas change them. What is apparently credible today may look incredible tomorrow and vice versa. Today a picture of God, as supernatural being, has died. It was never very good theology in the first place. In the fifteenth century Nicholas of Cusa defined God as non aliud, “not another thing.”107 Theologies crumble, sermons look even more ridiculous than when we first preached them. Thirty-volume systematic theologies turn out to say nothing at all, but the wonder of life remains and so does the possibility that what seems the death of God may not be the end of the matter.

      76. Gifford, Western Religion, 112.

      77. Tillich, From Time to Time.

      78. MacCulloch, Silence, 202.

      79. Tillich, Boundaries, 191.

      80. Thompson, Mud and Barbed Wire, 40.

      81. Thompson, Mud and Barbed Wire, 61.

      82. Hastings, Vietnam, 357.

      83. Owen, Collected Poems, 44.

      84. Quoted in Thompson, Mud and Barbed Wire, 53.

      85. Thompson, Mud and Barbed Wire, 61.

      86. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 146.

      87. Dorrien, Social Democracy, 273.

      88. Tillich, Courage to Be, 185.

      89. Tillich, Art and Architecture, 155–56.

      90. Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 92.

      91. Tillich, Courage to Be, 190.

      92. Robinson, Honest to God, 49.

      93. Tillich, Shaking of the Foundations, 57.

      94. Browning, Poems of Robert Browning, 129.

      95. Tillich, Boundaries, 281.

      96. Borg, Convictions, 48.

      97. McNeice, Plant, 21.

      98. Nietzsche, On Truth and Untruth, 13.

      99. Crick, Astonishing Hypothesis, 3.

      100. Tillich, Shaking of the Foundations, 70.

      101. Quoted in Fosdick, Dear Mr. Brown, 67.

      102. Scruton, I Drink, 73–74.

      103. Emerson, Poems, 396.

      104. Augustine, Ver. rel. 36.67.

      105. Congregational Union of England and Wales, Congregational Praise, no. 230.

      106 Greenblatt, Rise and Fall, 1.

      107. Quoted in Williams, Christ the Heart, xiv.

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