Unknowing & Astonishment

Meditations on Faith for the Long Haul

By: Christopher Scott

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

FAIRACRES PUBLICATIONS 182

In a series of reflective essays, Canon Scott puts before us an understanding of the Church which goes beyond a managerial model. He urges us to consider again the place of prayer in our lives and to recognise how it changes and develops over time. Drawing on the traditional theology of the Eastern Churches, and linking this teaching closely with the liturgy, he shows how the cataphatic tradition of affirmation, is held in tension with the apophatic tradition of negation, the way of unknowing. Within this tension, ‘faith then holds before us the possibility of being drawn to the unapproachable light in sheer astonishment. CHRISTOPHER SCOTT was ordained in 1968 and has served in parishes in Canterbury, London, Guildford and Truro dioceses. He is an Honorary Canon of Truro Cathedral and an Associate of the Community of the Servants of the Will of God at Crawley Down, Sussex.’