Louisville Process Theology Network

Faith and Oneness

Feb 12, 2010

From Page 173:

?“Faith must not be reduced to an act of obedience. Such reductionism could lead to a credulity that revels in the unintelligible, as in the case of the person who said of Trinity: ?‘Wish there were four so I might believe in more of them?’.

Reducing faith to obedience trivializes faith and strips it of any real content. It can lead also to ?‘a forced suppression of doubt rather then an opening of the heart by deep faith.?’ Doubts about faith need to be faced and dealt with, not suppressed. Most often, they do not indicate unwillingness or an inability on our part to accept the propositions of faith, but simply our sense of our weakness and our helplessness in the presence of the wondrous mystery of God.

We can never express the full reality of our experience of God. After we spoken all the words we can, there is always so much more experience left over.?”



Page 200:

?“The aim of meditation, in the context of Christian faith, is not to arrive at an objective and apparently ?‘scientific?’ knowledge about God, but to come to know him through the realization that our very being is penetrated with his knowledge and love of us.

Our knowledge of God is, paradoxically, knowledge not of him as the object of our scrutiny but of ourselves as utterly dependent on his saving and merciful knowledge of us.?”