When we describe God as almighty or omniscient, we are not describing God; rather, we are naming some of the respects in which God’s power and knowledge are different from ours, limited as we inevitably are. The protest that an almighty God could never have permitted Auschwitz only has force if we construe ‘almightiness’ as the observable property of a very powerful being. But matters are different if we see that term as a pointer towards divine mystery. To follow Christ is to be taken on a journey that educates us out of our preconceptions and projections, and opens us to a God who has always been greater than what eye has seen or what ear has heard. Our age is certainly one that raises awkward questions about God, and scrutinises critically the orthodoxies, whether traditionalist or trendy, that it has inherited. But perhaps matters have ever been thus when the quest for God has been alive and honest.
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