With regard to another post regarding faith... I have seen my preemie child struggling for life... I have held the hand of an old person as they slipped from life to death... I have stood vigil in the
room of a man of faith as over 40 friends and family crammed into a room sharing pain and suffering as he slipped away suffering from cancer at a young age.
Hope may be called the goal of faith, for it is that unseen destination in the future which gives direction to the present life of
obedience of the man of faith.
Imperfect as the
statement of the man of faith may be, the reality about which his statement is made remains entirely independent of that imperfection.
It is the
business of men of faith to see to it that they employ the forms which, in a particular cultural environment, will give the clearest and most exact description of the content of their faith to the people who live in that environment.
And so adequate a transcript of the event itself is this «remembering» community that the Resurrection of Jesus is not a datum of faith but a postulate of the community's experience, and the apostolic narratives of resurrection are superfluous, from the
point of men of faith.
It is the
responsibility of the man of faith to describe the structure of the realm of God, just as it is the responsibility of the scientist to describe the structure of the created world.
The Beatified Scientist An important part of combating the myth of the opposition of faith and science is a proper historical appreciation of the irreplaceable
contribution of men of faith to the rise of science and its great leaps: scientists who rigorously studied the natural world precisely because it is God's own order given to the world that makes it rational and worthy of investigation.
The Apostle (Robert Duvall, 1997) Insightful and real
portraits of men of faith seem to elude filmmakers — it seems every preacher, especially, that appears on the silver screen is either a saint or a demon.
It's also interesting to see the comparisons to Schrader's script for Taxi Driver, and how that's being realized in the
context of a man of faith wrestling with the darkness of humanity.