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'When academics speak of “the pursuit of truth,” they rightly imply that a gap exists between ourselves and truth.

But there is a conceit hidden in that image, the conceit that we can close the gap as we track truth down. In Christian understanding, the gap exists not so much because truth is hidden and evasive but because we are.

We hide from the transforming power of truth; we evade truth’s quest for us.'

"The failure of modern knowledge is not primarily a failure in our ethics ... Rather, it is the failure of our knowing itself to recognize and reach for its deeper source and passion, to allow love to inform the relations that our knowledge creates. ...

The love of which spiritual tradition speaks is "tough love," the connective tissue of reality—and we flee from it because we fear its claims on our lives."