Ebook: Explorations in Theology, Vol 1 - Word Made Flesh

The papers collected in this volume are not formal theological treatises as such. Rather, as outlines and suggestions, they pattern the general nature of a sketchbook, and make no claim to finality. Human work however is necessarily incomplete, so that it may well happen that here and there we will catch on the wing, as it were, an idea that a more academic work may overlook. Nor should it be surprising that in a sketchbook certain themes constantly recur, that various concepts are approached and studied from many angles-this kind of repetitiveness and overlapping is due to the fascination generated by the unseen core of the subject matter. The figure studies of Rodin or Marees, for example, consist of outline sketches of an arm or a leg superimposed or juxtaposed; whether they represent a groping after the one correct curve, or whether, in fact, they represent the only possible way of reproducing human motion is impossible to ascertain. And so it is with the following essays in theology.