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The Holy Gospel of Uncertainty - Sandín-Fremaint, Pedro A.
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Jewish theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote: "The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith." In this collection of homilies, Pedro A. Sandín-Fremaint treads the movable, often zig-zagging line between reason and faith, between faith and doubt, concluding that, before the inscrutable mystery of the holy, there is virtue in uncertainty. He writes: "I have learned to value uncertainty and unknowing as holy ground on which I can only kneel and take-off my shoes. To quote the great poet Mary Oliver, I have…mehr

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Jewish theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote: "The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith." In this collection of homilies, Pedro A. Sandín-Fremaint treads the movable, often zig-zagging line between reason and faith, between faith and doubt, concluding that, before the inscrutable mystery of the holy, there is virtue in uncertainty. He writes: "I have learned to value uncertainty and unknowing as holy ground on which I can only kneel and take-off my shoes. To quote the great poet Mary Oliver, I have found this to be the ground where there is never proof, 'but neither is there any way toward disbelief.'"
Autorenporträt
Pedro A. Sandin-Fremaint is a retired professor of French at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, and of Spanish at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Earlier publications in English and Spanish include the novel Huellas de papel (2015) and a collection of homilies under the title The Holy Gospel of Uncertainty (2017). He lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire, with his wife, Annie, and their two dogs, Sally and Molly.