Coming to Terms

Pressed metaphors and other signposts
at the intersection of positive and negative theology

“ I learned a basic thing from my high school students: cosmic questions do not in mortal terms have mortal answers. We learn through analogy, through story. A distinguished writer friend of mine said that Jesus was not a theologian but God who told stories.
Madeleine L’Engle, in Allegorical Fantasy: Mortal Dealings with Cosmic Questions

Notes

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