What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

One of the silliest of all discussions is the question whether God is personal-it would be more useful to inquire whether ice is frozen.

What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

Religion is more like a response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.

Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.

The crucial revelatory images that express 'the thought of Christ' are present in scripture and reinforced in worship.

When we pray, we must begin by conceiving God in full and vigorous images, but we must go on to acknowledge the inadequacy of them and to adhere nakedly to the imageless truth of God.