God the Unknown Sheen ” What does belief ask

” What does belief ask of me

at which the Church yet speaks the last word—above the indignity of antipopes and the putrefying horror of the Black Death rises another glorious witness to the living Word: Dante Aligheri and the Divine Comedy

(Jean Daniélou

the second novel in Ignazio Silone’s celebrated Abruzzo Trilogy and widely recognized as his masterpiece

God the Unknown Sheen ” What does belief askBy Victor White, O. P. Verily thou art a hidden God: God the Unknown makes these words from the Prophet Isaiah its lynchpin. Let one suppose, either consciously or unconsciously, that he has grasped God, and still must God elude him: God is always beyond the furthest advance one can make in knowledge about him. And yet the theologians task and the believers life retain their purpose. For the point of it all, as St. Thomas Aquinas attests, is that in