In the words of Thomas Merton, “faith incorporates the unknown into our everyday life in a living and dynamic manner. . . . The function of faith is not to reduce mystery to rational clarity, but to integrate the unknown and known together into a living whole, in which we are more and more able to transcend the limitations of our external self.”[3] Merton makes the point that we share the “unknowable” aspect that we attribute to God. Part of the imago Dei reflected in our lives is the opacity of human interiority. We may be transparent to God but not to one another.
Not unlike James KA Smith's later thoughts
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