...Faith is the freedom to with-hold one's final ascent from the determinism of one's theories about how the world works. It keeps us from leaping to conclusions which betray us. It is a matter not of what we know, nor even of what we don't know, but only of whether we allow ourselves to claim that all the evidence is in. It is this skepticism which keeps us free - not free to do anything we please, but free to be formed by something larger than our own intellects or the intellects of those around us....Faith doe not force us to abandon comprehension or to adopt a transparently false theory about the world .... it recognizes that it is not master of what it surveys.
John Burt on Flannery O'Connor's concept of "What You Can't Talk About"
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