It is not easy to make a picture of the unknowable, but Vincent Nichols feels the attempt important enough, in this book exploring God’s presence, to devote two of its six photographs to the bare hills of the Judaean Desert. “God the Silent Desert” (a phrase he takes from Meister Eckhart) is the ultimate mystery towards which point all the symbols offered to us, including those provided by the Church.
12 April 2018, The Tablet
Teaching the faith: an exploration of God's presence by Cardinal Vincent Nichols
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