![]() This is perhaps one reason that allegory has a hard time representing Christianity. It is fundamentally mysterious it communicates itself as much by paradox as by exposition, and employs many and interwoven meanings. ![]() This consideration reveals something about the nature of sacred truth and instruction in that truth. The Faith, the highest truth, comes to us inseparably bound with the fantastic. Its articles include the belief that somehow the actual bodies of all people who have ever lived will be reconstituted at the end of time-a fact which has inspired thousands of grade-school adherents with endless speculation about what happens, say, when cannibals are resurrected. Its God turns water into wine and terrifies men of corrupt finance with a whip, only end His life seemingly powerless and pinned to a cross. ![]() ![]() Its scriptures speak of its God variously as a mother hen, a cuckolded husband, and a worm-in addition to the mighty images and titles that comfort us. Nothing is stranger than the holy Catholic Faith. ![]()
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