Saints for this Age (Pendle Hill Pamphlets Book 124)
(I spend a good deal of time these days among those who ar...)
I spend a good deal of time these days among those who are regarded as unbelievers, and my thoughts constantly shuttle back and forth between the conviction that many of these are the true believers, and the wish that I might be able to give them an account of the faith that is in me, and which in some sense they do not have, in language which is comprehensible to them. For many of us also, religion, or the living of the religious life, is a problem in this age. So beside us who say, “Lord, I believe, help thou mine unbelief,” stand those others whose heart’s cry, if it could be uttered, might be, “Lord, I do not believe; help me to recognize that nevertheless I do believe.”
To put it another way: our age is an age of crisis, and in the final analysis the crisis is religious. It has to do with ultimates, with what it is to be human, with the presuppositions by which men live, with the nature of the resources upon which we draw in extremity, the quality of life men seek, the values which they embrace, the drums by which they march, the commands they dare not disobey. It is essential that we should think about these things.
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