Findings: Poets and the Crisis of Faith

It is part of the innocence of poetry that it can testify to reality without trying to explain and systematize as the theologians must do. They look for truths which converge in a single system; while the poets claim the freedom to think, to question, and to record, boldly and unsystematically. Moreover their conclusions are tentative: "I saw this, I felt this--take it or leave it!"

For myself, I have come into a phase where I find it very hard to read religious books (which is a statement ...