Sublime

one’s every encounter with the world has always been an encounter with an enigma that no merely physical explanation can resolve.

Western society was on the verge of discovering that a radical materialism could breed horrors far greater than even the worst religious fanaticism.

In the age of the mechanical philosophy, in which all of nature could be viewed as a boundless collection of brute events, God soon came to be seen as merely the largest brute event of all.

one may be tempted to try to reduce the essential mystery of existence to something one can contain in a simple concept,

“being,” “consciousness,” and “bliss.”

I believe writers like Danto and Fried glean words from theology because a rich imagination of presence persists in Christianity, developed through efforts to render coherent the church’s own claims about the ongoing presence of Christ in the world.

authority

these three words are not only a metaphysical explanation of God, but also a phenomenological explanation of the human encounter with God.

he can genuinely be known: that is, reasoned toward, intimately encountered, directly experienced with a fullness surpassing mere conceptual comprehension.