tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post1293932916070864976..comments2024-03-25T13:40:30.747-04:00Comments on Faith and Theology: Faith over the abyssBen Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03800127501735910966noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-38635499228027265302007-10-20T15:25:00.000-04:002007-10-20T15:25:00.000-04:00Learning this can be painful. Here's a related quo...Learning this can be painful. <BR/><BR/>Here's a related quote from Dostoyevski: <BR/><BR/>"I am a child of doubt and unbelief. What terrible suffering it has cost me and still costs me, this longing to believe, which is so much the stronger in my soul as more arguments against it rise up within me. ... My 'hosanna' has passed thorugh the crucible of doubt." (F. Dostoyevski)<BR/><BR/>Or is it related?Phil Sumpterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16491514886782881340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-57866991618418513952007-10-20T07:33:00.000-04:002007-10-20T07:33:00.000-04:00Thank you, Ben. Karl Barth has been instrumental ...Thank you, Ben. Karl Barth has been instrumental in helping me understand that faith is not a possession of ours or an advantage we may have over others, but that our importance lies in our poverty. Faith as a gift is paradoxically a void - the gift to recognise our own helplesness.Michael Aguilerahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17014147623363439824noreply@blogger.com