Says theologian Roger Olson:"Reflective Christianity is humble because it knows how little we really know or understand about the great mysteries of God and the universe. The fault is not God's or the universe's but ours. Because of our finitude and fallenness we cannot know or understand many things. We have to learn to live with questions and embrace mystery. But it strictly eschews contradictions and is uncomfortable with paradoxes. It regards a paradox (an apparent contradiction) in religion as a task for thought. Rather than simply playing the mystery card too early, reflective Christianity is willing to think and think again about hard problems presented by God's Word."
The quote is from Olson's book, Questions to All Your Answers: The Journey from Folk Religion to Examined Faith (Zondervan). He is a professor of theology at Baylor University.
