Canon Angela Tilby feels "existential dread" while thinking of God "questioning our pride and reminding us of our smallness". She thinks of the doomed expedition of Captain Scott and of the 16th century philosopher Francis Bacon speaking with such confidence of "stretching the limits of human dominion", of "putting Nature on the rack of science and torturing her for her secrets".
She is uneasy after so many centuries of blasphemous idolatry by the British, of worshipping the supreme and eternal Abrahamic God as a man with a friendly kindly face, and wonders whether we now need to "discover how far away we are from God to recognise God's love confronting us through fire and through ice, with an otherness we can barely comprehend*, even as it calls us to weep our way to sanity."
Damn right, Angie baby.
* In my view, the Jewish and Islamic conception of God as the Supreme Being who created the Universe by kicking it off with the Big Bang but who now lives outside it as pure spirit, sending the Holy Spirit from time to time to perform miracles, is probably the most logical way of looking at things. This makes Christianity the odd one out and the weakest link. However, I like to think it is not too late to repent.
https://platitudes.home.blog/2020/01/29/ex-rev-canon-angela-tilby-christ-church-cathedral-oxford-14 for my as yet undeleted comments on Canon Tilby's Thought For The Day.
https://www.julesgomes.com/single-post/Church-of-Englands-Synod-may-abolish-Holy-Trinity-to-include-Muslims
She is uneasy after so many centuries of blasphemous idolatry by the British, of worshipping the supreme and eternal Abrahamic God as a man with a friendly kindly face, and wonders whether we now need to "discover how far away we are from God to recognise God's love confronting us through fire and through ice, with an otherness we can barely comprehend*, even as it calls us to weep our way to sanity."
Damn right, Angie baby.
* In my view, the Jewish and Islamic conception of God as the Supreme Being who created the Universe by kicking it off with the Big Bang but who now lives outside it as pure spirit, sending the Holy Spirit from time to time to perform miracles, is probably the most logical way of looking at things. This makes Christianity the odd one out and the weakest link. However, I like to think it is not too late to repent.
https://platitudes.home.blog/2020/01/29/ex-rev-canon-angela-tilby-christ-church-cathedral-oxford-14 for my as yet undeleted comments on Canon Tilby's Thought For The Day.
https://www.julesgomes.com/single-post/Church-of-Englands-Synod-may-abolish-Holy-Trinity-to-include-Muslims
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