Before we get too caught up in "what Christians believe" let's point out that it is a big tent religion and the story is much more complicated. Perhaps, as Che

Before we get too caught up in "what Christians believe" let's point out that it is a big tent religion and the story is much more complicated. Perhaps, as Chesterton said, GP is being "as narrow as the universe". When I read your essay I immediately thought of the negative way, which is the strain of Christian philosophy that denies affirmative statements about God, and denies to some extent settled knowledge. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophatic_theology http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophatic_theology There is also an equal and opposite affirmative way that takes God as knowable not literally, but by analogy. And this to me is the missing element in the essay. This egoless vehicle that we are cleaning so carefully, where are we to drive it? What shall we use to measure improvement? How will we understand progress?