Nobody expects to win the champions league, when bayern or madrid go out of competition its not the look
of amazement surprise bewilderment shock or dumbfoundment that they convey... its them being utterly gutted.
That sense
of marvelous absurdity and incredulous, wide - eyed wonder that attaches itself to great
surprises, sudden
amazements and comic twists, seems to get lost in the prosaic thickness
of theological pedantry.
The revelatory character
of sacred writings results essentially from their powerful exemplification
of the first two fundamentals
of religious experience: In the first place, there is the marked element
of surprise,
of wonder and
amazement at the new and wholly unexpected things that have come to pass (e.g., deliverance
of the Hebrews from Egypt or from Babylon, the sense
of a living presence among the disciples who had witnessed Jesus» crucifixion).