On “Whose God Is God?”

On “Whose God Is God?”


For me, I have more respect for the “savage” who worships a wooden idol than for the “civilized” person who only bows before himself. (Rémi Brague, On the God of the Christians (and on one or two others)) 1
The primary thing, which is presupposed by theology, is a body of traditional pronouncements which are believed to have been revealed, not to have come into being through human interpretation of reality, but, as Plato puts it, to “have come down from a divine source.” (Josef Pieper, The End of Time) 2
To ask for a (new) particular revelation is to ask God to have his Son incarnate and die once again. To ask more from God would be to ask for what he had already done. To ask for something else would be to ask for the same thing once again. (Rémi Brague, On the God of the Christians (and on one or two others)) 3