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chapter
one
information is not
necessarily transformation
"Overexplanation
separates us from astonishment."
—Eugene lonesco
We need transformed people today, and not just people with
answers. I begin with the above
epigraph from lonesco, the French-Romanian playwright, to cover my bases
from the start! I do not want my too
many words here to separate you from astonishment or to provide you
with a substitute for your own inner experience. Theology and
Bible answers have done that for too
many.
This marvelous anthology
of books and letters called the Bible is all
for the sake of astonishment! It's for divine transformation
(theosis), not
intellectual or
"small-self" coziness.
The British-American
author D.H. Lawrence said that "the world
fears a new experience more than anything. Because a new experience
displaces so many old experiences."
Ideas are not a problem. "The world
can pigeonhole any idea," he said. They are easily discounted and
''dodged."1 But a true inner experience is something
else, again. It changes us, and human beings do not like to change.
Rosemary Haughton rightly speaks of
the same as "the knife edge of experience."2
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