Not exact matches
Chesterton's
orthodoxy and humor, his love for the Church, and his wonderful sense
of mystery is a model for lay Catholics everywhere.
There are many reasons for this, including the historical failure
of any
of the various theories to compel enduring universal consent, a general sense that we blaspheme against the sheer
mystery of God by witnessing to the glory
of God's actions with a cocksure
orthodoxy, and a philosophic climate characterized by a profound skepticism about all metaphysical or theological attempts to probe rationally the truth
of things.
Some
of these particularities, but probably not all, should be valued and not lost: for example the silence
of the Quakers, Black preaching styles,
Mystery in
Orthodoxy, Catholic spirituality, diverse liturgical styles, and more.
In his 1986 book A Theology
of Artistic Sensibilities, though offering a more balanced use
of the terms clarity and
mystery, Dillenberger argues that a blatant contrast between language and painting followed the rise
of Protestant
orthodoxy.