(Ir)religiosity

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This is becoming one of my favorite images lately.  I think it aptly encapsulates my thoughts on philsophy and theology that I mentioned last week.

And I think it’s very representative of the countless engimas with which we live and the various tensions within each of us.  The point is, of course, not necesarily resolution and final compromise or concession, but instead a coming to terms with the beauty of aporetic discourse — which, as Pete Rollins tells us, will always send us off-course — and engimatic contestation.  Truth (or something like it) lies somewhere within these many paradoxes and I find it much more useful to enter into the dance and movement of these mysterious paradoxes and savour the experience of be(come)ing in the process than to colonize or objectifiy that which lies beyond language and imagination.  That is not to say that language and imagination are not important tools with which to particpate in this project, only that they always, in the end, fall short of the excess that is beyond.