Fides Quaerens Intellectum

Perhaps it is my love for sketching that increases and informs my love for theology (for me, art came before theology). For in theology one finds not a slew of dogmatic statements to be universalised but a pleathora of rough ideas to be scrutinized, changed and adapted. Theology provides more difference than agreement, more ideology than completed works. Furthermore theology is always contextual and the context of life is always changing. Theology thus follows the contours of the context in which it is created for better or worse. In practice, theology thus procliams that notions of God are always open to discussion and that dogma, while revered, remains refutable. The canon is viewed as essentially open. Theologians thus see the theological task as creative and essentially incomplete. Faith constantly seeks to further understand that which cannot be fully understood, to know again that which cannot be fully known, by continually sketching and re-sketching the face of God.