The Bible is the work of religious poets, who give the Spirit of human religious experience a local habitation and a name. While we are indebted to them for this heightened feature, there are drawbacks too. Such images diminish the Mystery, sometimes almost domesticate it, stress some of its aspects much more than others, and run the risk, especially with the stories that cluster around them, of being childish, foreign to evolving experience, and hence incredible. Today’s ‘loss of faith’ has much more to do with these images of God than it does with the reality of the Mystery and people’s experience of it. -
-Thomas Hart
