Thursday, January 20, 2011

Everything bears the stamp of the hidden God

"What can be seen on earth indicates neither total absence, nor the manifest presence of divinity, but the presence of a hidden God. Everything bears this stamp."

(Blaise Pascal, Pensees, cited in p.35, Kelly M. Kapic, With Justin L. Borger, God So Loved, He Gave: Entering the Movement of Divine Generosity)

I don't think that Pascal intended it, but that chimes with a Lutheran approach to natural theology (esp. if you understand the Lutheran concept of "the Hidden God".

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