In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
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We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick.
For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.
When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.
There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.
The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.
A mystery, in Christian theology, is what God knows and man cannot, and must instead believe.
The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them.
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
Mystery is a birthright of theology and faith, but you often do find religious people grasping for answers that shut things down and narrow what is possible.
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