Comment on Truth from the Gospel of John

William Temple 1881-1944Truth is the perfect correlation of mind and reality; and this is actualized in the Lord's Person. If the Gospel is true and God is, as the Bible declares, a Living God, the ultimate truth is not a system of propositions grasped by a perfect intelligence, but is a Personal Being apprehended in the only way in which persons are ever fully apprehended, that is, by love. The Incarnation is not a condescension to our infirmities, so that 'Truth embodied in a tale' may enter in at the 'lowly door' of human minds. It is the only way in which divine truth can be expressed, not because of our infirmity but because of its own nature. What is personal can be expressed only in a person--Bishop William Temple from Readings in St. John's Gospel 



Readings in St John's Gospel: First and Second Series (Christian Classics Book 8)