William Blake keeps haunting me. He was really one of the first to actually articulate the adverse effects of the "reason and science" Enlightenment concepts on the fragile, imaginative mythos of Christianity. The battle of Blake's day was an epistemology that confined God to an abstract, confined watchdog. Thomas Merton has ...

As quoted in Subversive Orthodoxy by Robert Inchausti: A few hundred years ago, Man asked God if he could switch places with Him for just a few seconds, so that he could know what it was like to be God, and God could know what it was like to be a ...