Those events showed that faith is not a matter of playing with ideas but a very serious business: it says no, and must say no, to the absoluteness of political power and to the worship of the might of the mighty in general—“He has put down the mighty from their thrones” (Lk 1:52); and in doing so it has shattered the political principle’s claim to totality once and for all. In this sense the profession “There is only one God” is, precisely because it has itself no political aims, a program of decisive political importance: through the absoluteness that it lends the individual from his God, and
...more
