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“Reading some traditional or fundamentalist religious material today is like visiting a bunker. Yes, from the inside you see the logic of what is being said, and the attempt to protect values and ideas that are held dear from what is perceived to be an external threat of nihilism or devilry. You can admire the thickness of the theological or biblical concrete that has been assembled, but the place is stifling and there is a sense that an explosion down here will bring the whole edifice crashing down.”
― Through Mud and Barbed Wire: Paul Tillich, Teilhard de Chardin and God after the First World War
― Through Mud and Barbed Wire: Paul Tillich, Teilhard de Chardin and God after the First World War
“The Great War was a moment of change, a fulcrum upon which were balanced so many questions and choices in the way we think about life, religion and the future. It set an agenda through which we have yet to work our way. It threw up questions with which we still wrestle. In particular, it threw into question the meaning of ‘God’ and the relevance of religion. We learn from it what we may.”
― Through Mud and Barbed Wire: Paul Tillich, Teilhard de Chardin and God after the First World War
― Through Mud and Barbed Wire: Paul Tillich, Teilhard de Chardin and God after the First World War
“I want to suggest that the development in the 20th century of a fundamentalist and literalist approach to religious ideas is just such a quest for a comforting illusion in the face of the shaking of life’s foundations, and that it finds a parallel with the bizarre story of Fort Douaumont.”
― Through Mud and Barbed Wire: Paul Tillich, Teilhard de Chardin and God after the First World War
― Through Mud and Barbed Wire: Paul Tillich, Teilhard de Chardin and God after the First World War
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