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highlyeccentricJack Marx today quotes Prof. Terry Eagleton, who, in a critique of the new anti-religious book 'The God Delusion', described God thusly:
"... while faith, rather like love, must involve factual knowledge, it is not reducible to it. For my claim to love you to be coherent, I must be able to explain what it is about you that justifies it; but my bank manager might agree with my dewy-eyed description of you without being in love with you himself ... God is not a person in the sense that Al Gore arguably is. Nor is he a principle, an entity, or 'existent' ... He is, rather, the condition of possibility of any entity whatsoever, including ourselves. He is the answer to why there is something rather than nothing."
The Marx article
The Eagleton review
which also includes this great line: These days, theology is the queen of the sciences in a rather less august sense of the word than in its medieval heyday.
"... while faith, rather like love, must involve factual knowledge, it is not reducible to it. For my claim to love you to be coherent, I must be able to explain what it is about you that justifies it; but my bank manager might agree with my dewy-eyed description of you without being in love with you himself ... God is not a person in the sense that Al Gore arguably is. Nor is he a principle, an entity, or 'existent' ... He is, rather, the condition of possibility of any entity whatsoever, including ourselves. He is the answer to why there is something rather than nothing."
The Marx article
The Eagleton review
which also includes this great line: These days, theology is the queen of the sciences in a rather less august sense of the word than in its medieval heyday.