Month: November 2016
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From Mystery to Worship
Don: We have been discussing whether, and if so how, we might share our understanding and/or experience of the mystery of God. It was suggested that we might do so through worship, and that worship is all that is left to us after we have exhausted all means of understanding God. We can help to…
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Mystery and the Certain Way to God
Don: Mystery is to knowledge what blindness is to sight. The tension between the need to know about God and the need to live with the mystery of God lies at the interface in many of the conflicts we find in our churches today. For thousands of years, religion has been about knowing and explaining…
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The Psychology of Mystery
Jay: Is mystery important to our spirituality? Here are some passages that suggest it is, at least, important to the psyche: 1. An artist called John Newling went to insurers Lloyd’s of London in 2006 and asked them to underwrite him against ‘loss of mystery’ — in other words, to offer to pay out if…
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Blindness IX: Mystery vs. Knowledge
Don: Data, information, and knowledge are about things known. Mystery is about things unknown. On the face of it, it seems preposterous to think that all mankind, born everywhere, in all ages, from all cultures, from all walks of life, all educational backgrounds, and life experiences should see God—and, even more preposterously, believe in God—in…