Mystery and Play: God in mysticism and post-modernity

14th March 2013 at 6:15 pm

How, if at all, do we imagine God? Should we even try? Vernon White, Canon Theologian at Westminster Abbey and Visiting Professor at King’s College London, presents three lectures exploring concepts of God in scripture, philosophy and drama.

To hold together experiences of a personal God with concepts of an infinite and eternal God can lead to intellectual and imaginative paralysis. The puzzling and fragmented life we experience in late-modernity can do the same. Christian tradition has always acknowledged this as a necessary mystery. This final lecture explored how understanding of God, and our experience of God, must embrace such mystery.

A Westminster Abbey Institute lecture.

Read the lecture transcript (PDF, 187 KB)

Listen to the lecture podcast (MP3, 49.2 MB)