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Strange Prayers for Strange Times

Strange Prayers for Strange Times

Paperback

Religion General

ISBN10: 1978194625
ISBN13: 9781978194625
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Oct 10 2017
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Strange times call for strange measures.

Theologians have historically tried to communicate what cannot be said. As Paul Tillich argued, The words which are used most in religion are also those whose genuine meaning is also completely lost. Only through lingustic resurrection-finding new, if controversial, ways to talk about and to God-can we address our strange circumstances to the divine. Just as particle physicists use highly unusual scientific language (quark, charm, even strangeness itself), our prayers may need to be lifted in bizarre voices. For in the beginning was the neologism (and the fact that the phrase is a Googlewhack merely proves its deeper truth beyond human ken).

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