In The Devil to Pay, I tried to make this point; and I remember being soundly rapped over the knuckles by a newspaper critic, who said in effect that after a great deal of unintelligible pother, I had worked up to the statement that God was light, which did not seem to be very novel or profound. Novel, it certainly is not; it is scarcely the business of Christian writers to introduce novelties into the fundamental Christian doctrines. But profundity is another matter; Christian theology is profound, and since I did not invent it, I may have the right to say so.
