Sir - Did your recent inconclusive correspondence on, in effect, "The Problem of the Starting Point of Theological Thinking" (Werner G. Jeanrond in Hermathena, summer 1994) index the confusion that exists in the debate on the so called "post modern experience"? It is not a cop out to state that faith is a gilt. The cliche that things that are above reason are not necessarily contrary to reason, rings a bell.
The greatest wish of the cure d'Ars was for the simple faith of a Breton peasant woman. On a more pedestrian level, Graham Greene when questioned as to whether he still believed in the Catholic religion, replied that he believed in the mystery.
The Mass exhorts: "Let us proclaim the mystery of faith". It defies, disdains, vain QED geometrising. That is not to reject the post modern challenge: on the contrary. Yours, etc.,
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