“No one knows 8,000 pages about God — not even in German.” My professor’s comment provoked a light-bulb moment. The sources of God-knowledge are problematic, and if it is possible to joke that no one knows 8,000 pages about God, on what basis do we claim that anyone knows even one page about God? Don’t we have to explain exactly why and how it is possible to know anything about God? Otherwise, isn’t it all smoke and mirrors?
