A Question of Belief Moss Nelva
A Question of Belief Moss Nelva Belief is rarely pure and never simple. To exercise a public and representational role within any faith community will always bring its own pressures and paradoxes.…
Specifikacia A Question of Belief Moss Nelva
A Question of Belief Moss Nelva
Belief is rarely pure and never simple. To exercise a public and representational role within any faith community will always bring its own pressures and paradoxes. This book explores the particular perplexities of belief as experienced by one female vicar in the Church of England.
A constant theme of the book is the relationship between fact and truth. Here, the author acknowledges and explores her own questions, which cover a wide range of topics from politics to preaching; from science to suffering. Fact is, of course, an important vehicle of truth, but not the only one.
Symbolism, metaphor, myth, the creative arts have all conveyed the deep truths of Christianity to the author, who remains totally committed to her faith. Perhaps unsurprisingly, however, she takes a non-literalist view of belief, which she accepts will not be shared by some fellow Christians. But in her experience