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\”The Word and the Spirit, as we said, are in on the act of creation, and Christ is in the Old Testament, and the Spirit of the Lord is in Isaiah, and Jesus is before Abraham was, and he had glory with the Father before the world existed. And as far as the church is […]

\”. . . the theologian’s real work is not to prove that the Faith is true, only that it’s interesting. Decisions about truth are, necessarily, the province of the faithful.\” (Robert Farrar Capon, The Romance of the Word, 309)

\”Theology, therefore, is a hunt for the Mystery – and the theologians are primarily hunters: even though they know that as long as they live they will never get even one clear shot at the Beast, they are happy enough keeping their guns oiled and tramping through the woods.\” (Robert Farrar Capon, The Romance of the

\”If the cross teaches us anything it should be that the cup doesn’t pass from us, and that agony, bloody sweat, and the pain of being forsaken on a dark afternoon are the true marks of having said, Thy Will Be Done.\” (Robert Farrar Capon, The Romance of the Word, 276)

\”You will be interested in God’s existence only if, in advance of proof, you care about the subject. And that depends on more than mere existence. What does it matter to you if I can prove that lobsters exist, if you’re not interested in seafood at all? The theologian’s real job should be to work

\”The upshot of all this is to refocus our attention on the church’s true vocation. Perhaps it’s time for it to retire from most of the plausible business it has been in for years and to start thinking about its real work as the sacrament of the Mystery of the Word. Perhaps it ought to

\”It’s memory, you see, that puts the sting in our knowledge of badness. God is lucky: he never loses a thing. The chickens are equally lucky: they lose everything. but we are just enough of a mixture of God and chicken to be able to hang on to the worst of both worlds.\” (Robert Farrar Capon, The

\”At other times, in other places, and for his own reasons, Jesus does all of the things the Devil suggests. Instead of making lunch out of rocks, he feeds the five thousand miraculously – basically the same trick, but on a grander scale. Instead of jumping off the Temple and not dying, he dies and

\”This world is fundamentally unnecessary. Nothing has to be. It needs a creator not only for its beginning but for every moment of its being. Accordingly, the trinitarian bash doesn’t really come before creation what actually happens is that all of creation, from start to finish, occurs within the bash: the raucousness of the divine

\”The problem of evil is not that there is so much of it that we can’t see the good, but that there is so little of it – and yet it still wins.\” (Robert Farrar Capon, The Romance of the Word, 137)