Nicholas Lash on Christianity as education: From Holiness, Speech, and Silence

It is not easy to think Christian thoughts in a culture whose imagination, whose ways of 'seeing' the world and everything there is to see, are increasingly unschooled by Christianity and, to a considerable and deepening extent, quite hostile to it.

In such a situation, continuing to hold the Gospel's truth makes much more serious and dangerous demands than mere lip-service paid to undigested information. Unless we make that truth our own through thought, and pain, and argument - through prayer and study and an unflinching quest for understanding - it will be chipped away, reshaped, eroded, by the power of an imagining fed by other springs, tuned to quite different stories. And this unceasing, strenuous, vulnerable attempt to make some Christian sense of things, not just in what we say, but through the ways in which we 'see' the world is what is known as doing theology.

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