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In faith God is experienced as the absolute subject who grasps us, while in theology we set about reflecting upon this subject. Here the source of our desire is rendered into an (intellectual) object that we may reflect upon. In faith we are held, in theology we hold.
significant part of a wider religious movement which rejects both absolutism and relativism as idolatrous positions which hide their human origins in the modern myth
a way of being in the world rather than a means of believing things about the world.
faith embraces journey as a type of destination.
we end up deceiving ourselves, for our understanding is always an interpretation of the information before us
The term ‘ideology’ refers to any system which is held as a verbal representation of how things really are.
our views have been influenced by such factors as our cultural tradition, biological traits, unconscious libidinal desires and economic position.
we can still talk of a real world: it is just that we can never see it in an unadulterated manner because, as interpretive beings, we always filter the real world through our experiences, language, intelligence, culture and so forth.
the philosophical critique of ideology mirrors the biblical rejection of idolatry.
We are like an infant in the arms of God, unable to grasp but being transformed by the grasp.
we must recognize the extent to which these reflections fall short of that which they attempt to define and always reflect something of the one who makes the claims.
the God we are in relationship with is bigger, better and different than our understanding of that God.
theology is understood as the site in which revelation makes its appearance in the world, the place in which theos (God) impacts, and overwhelms, the human realm of logos (reason). Consequently we do not do theology but are rather overcome and transformed by it: we do not master it but are mastered by it.
a mystery to be participated in.
we ought to affirm our view of God while at the same time realizing that that view is inadequate.
while we do not grasp God, faith is born amidst the feeling that God grasps us.
love acts not whenever a certain set of criteria has been met, but rather because it is in the nature of love to act.
called to be hints of the divine.
one of the roles of the Church is to provide a sacred space for this exploration.
God is not revealed via our words but rather via the life of the transformed individual.
