He writes "to live we must veil the abyss, accept the conventional surface of things, cut a house for ourselves in the homeless immensity of the universe. Do not look too fixedly at the secret of God; you will merely grow dizzy and lose the courage to live" and I gasp
A short collection of essays on the meaning of a forgotten religious culture from an aging academic. This is no history or intellectual apology but the personal thoughts of an educated man wondering about the big questions of life.