The following three statements, from three different people, make sense of one another: Pascal: We must love things before we can know them. Kierkegaard: A believer is someone in love. St.Anselm: I believe in order to understand. To really understand something we have to be in a relationship with it, involved with it, to some [...]
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Revelation?
“The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description. Persons influence us, voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us.” John Henry Newman When the heart is so reached, an old fashioned, theological word [...]
