Preliminary Notes and Musings on Truth, Theology and Ecumenism

1. Truth is absolute

2. Truth is infinite

3. This is a paradox

All infinite things not only advance infinitely, but also regress infinitely. So, as we aim to pursue Truth to it’s end, we must accept that we cannot arrive at its end. In doing this, we are finally enabled to live, and breath, and have our being in Truth.

But what we have tried to use theology too look at truth propositionally. But if truth is infinite, there are infinite true propositions. Thus, we will never come to full theology that is without affirmation of Truth’s infinity.

So, our history chronicles the construction of human intellectual towers. These towers are build up by theo-philosophical propositions. In our present time, Christianity, Protestant Christianity in particular, is disconnected from theological history. And so, we are more concerned with the final finished theological tower and less concerned with its actual construction. This is first dangerous premise for building any structure. We are rank with heresy, unaware that it is heresy, and further, we believe that the quest for heresy/orthodoxy is paramount to our existence. There are fundamental flaws with this thinking.

So we have built towers, not as vantage points but as trophies. With theology our independent elements for with to build independent towers on which we stand and partake in a ancient height-contest.

As the Body of Christ we have forsaken Naomi and Ruth in favor of Cain and Abel. We are rivals.

The fall of our first tower scattered us and we have taken to congregating in accordance with our tribes, tongues, and languages.

But our towers should serve as vantage points, for which to see the vastness of the Kingdom of God; to see the infinite truth that the Love of Christ is the land in which we all live as siblings; one Body.

So we cannot forsake the importance of theology. However, let us be wise in our pursuits, seeing that philosophy as idolatry consists of the love of knowledge, whereas philosophy as selfless pursuit consists of the wisdom of Love.

It is also possible for theology to consist of silence and images, just as it is possible for prayer to consist of wordless groans.

Christ’s prayer is not so that we might all agree, but that we might be One.