"For the Christian, truth has the character of trust".

Here's a couple of paragraphs you might want to read and see if it makes you look at or think about the world and all its rich happenings differently:

Christians like any other people with religious beliefs, do hold certain things sacred. We do not meddle with them but hold them in awe and respect. Usually, what we hold to be sacred we also consider mysterious in some way or another. The idea of mystery implies the acknowledgement of a limit to what we can understand: the Trinity, the incarnation, and the resurrection are sacred mysteries; the Bible, the institution of marriage, the celebration  of the Lord's Supper are also commonly considered sacred.

These sacred mysteries Christians would call truths or sources of truth, but to a Christian truth is first and formeost relational. It is not something one can hold at a distance and look at with supposed objectivity. Christians preeminently locate truth in a person; Jesus is the truth. Probably the most important implication of truth as being located in a person is that if a person who is true makes a promise then you can count on this person to make good on his or her promise. For the christian, truth has the character of trust. So the concept of truth is personal and the implication of this concept is relational"

Quite so!

The Passionate Intellect. Incarnational Humanism and the Future of University Education, Norman Klassen and Jens Zimmermann (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2008), 30-3.

(I see no reason why a masterpiece of the Annunciation should not be enjoyed in September.......this would be a painting depicting a sacred mystery then?)

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[chris]

How strange: I've been preparing a sermon on angels (celebrating St Michael and co a couple of days early) and thought this was perhaps directed at me! (Gabriel beats Michael hands down in my cosmology...)