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KEY
THOUGHTS
'........
an artist, a writer, a scientist, a doctor, a plumber, a pilot
, a builder, a lawyer, a mother, a grandparent. a teacher, a botanist, a
gardener..........
Each of these activities, if it is a genuine calling, will have its own
truth, its own perspective, its own language, its own relationships;
each will therefore have a significance for theological enquiry that it
is our task to celebrate, to confirm and to draw on for the benefit of
all.
Each
of them, since it offers something that the community needs, is valued
by God who therefore gives himself to it: each of them must be valued by
us.
Our
creativity finds expression in the formation of the world of hope and
joy in which the community of faith, and through it, that wider
community of humanity, is confirmed.'
Frances
Young and Kenneth Wilson
Focus on God (pp
l0l-2)
`There are. I suppose, times in all lives when concentrated
attention to one problem, human, abstract, practical, seems to evoke a
more than randomly distributed series of "fortunate"
encounters with related books, people, ideas.
This.........
feels like the opposite of egoism, a privileged insight into the order
of things, in which all things are to be experienced as parts of a
whole. It can feel like a magical assertion of mind over matter, a
telekinitic arrangement of the contents of a library or at least of
one's own track through it.'
A
S
Byatt
Stlll Life
p212
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