Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Grasping

Exclusivism, inclusivism and pluralism diagramming, 2018 edition (compare 2012 and last year), with Karl Barth raining on our picnic! Maybe "religion" of all sorts is - as the Barth quote spaced unobtrusively along top and right edge of the board suggests - Unglaube, unbelief, faithlessness? Religion is an umbrella that shelters us from the truth of revelation, and even Christianity only gets it right to the extent (and only as long as) water dripping through a cross-shaped tear in the umbrella disturbs our various efforts to stay dry...?!