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I’ve read chapter one and two twice now. Enjoying this a lot! It’s definitely way more dense than I’m used to reading though.

Lesslie Newbigin says so much in little. Rare quality.

Descartes, my friend, why did you bring asunder what Augustine held beautifully together: faith presupposes doubt & knowledge. To learn anything is to have faith in the subject being explained.

This book is a cheat code for understanding how we came to our modern Western epistemology and it’s influence on doubt & faith in the believer’s life.

This book is blowing my mind.

“There is a parallel between this kind of academic tradition and that of fox hunting. The whole point is the chase; if the fox is caught, the fun is over, and we have to look for another fox. Surely, the asking of questions is a vital part of our encounter with reality. But reality finally encounters us when we have to answer the question put to us by the Incarnate Logos: ‘Who do you say that I am?’” (p. 12)

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“The question whether the cosmos and human life within it have any purpose other than the individual purposes we seek to impose on things is one that cannot be decided by observation. If we live with a prior assumption that human life has no purpose; then we shall act accordingly, and there will be no possibility whatsoever of discovering its purpose.”