Man The Believer: by Samuel H. Miller, Vintage 1968 Hardcover

Description: Excerpt from the Preface: In a sense, faith is precisely that act of love which takes place without scorning any of the enigmas which thunder and crash about it on every side. To believe without blotting out the sight of tragedy; to believe without ignoring the brutal indifference of the world; to believe without hiding the fragility of faith's foundation - all this is difficult, to say the least. Surely nothing emasculates the strength of religion in the churches so much as the all too human tendency to make faith seem strong by a wilful blindness to everything which denies it. Believing comes to full power only when it is conscious of its radical questionableness. In these brief essays, we move into the troubled waters of the human heart much as a small boat moves into the crosscurrents of a riptide. Keeping our head up into the wind, our eye unswerving, will test our strenth at many points. We may swerve and dip and twist under the force of honest reflection, or careless handling, or sudden ignorance. Work with the old words of faith under such conditions may appear clumsy and ill fitted for steering preciesly and firmly, yet they cannot be discarded glibly. There is still an ancient wisdom, old handholds in their rough shapes, and we can ill afford to lose them. They pointed to great affirmations which we still need amid the vilolent derangements of out time. In a region of such intimacy, where insights and understandings are derived from a thousand sources, some hidden, some forgotten, it is rather futile to try to unravel the tangled skeins and follow to their orgins all the experiences one owes to others. One can only be grateful that life is so varied, and that grace is so surprising that the multitude of its mercies continue to flow from the common day as if God were still busy - as he is - with the unfinished work of his creation.

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