Covenant and Commitments is scholarly in substance, accessible in style, and always wise in its engagement with
the everyday perplexities of living Christianly in the world.
In the Symposium, Plato depicts Socrates so caught up in wonder that he remains motionless in the midst of the commotion of
everyday life; in the Hippias Major and the Hippias Minor, Socrates describes himself as suffering from a kind of seizure brought on by
perplexity.