George Pattison

Interpretation is a task that we repeatedly have to take up and start again from the beginning, Sisyphus-like. But, as Camus said,…

— George Pattison

Religious life is about something real in human experience that is not constrained by what Wittgenstein called 'all that is the case'.…

— George Pattison

However, in brief, I think the connecting of 'God' and 'Being' is one of these things for which there seems to be…

— George Pattison

Every stroke a tennis player plays is different, yet we perceive them as playing in a distinctive and unique way. It's what…

— George Pattison

It's strange that in an age when we pride ourselves on our independence of thought we meekly submit without further question to…

— George Pattison

Perhaps this is an area where every generation starts from scratch. Although the crisis of the First World War inaugurated an especially…

— George Pattison

Sartre is one example of someone who does just this. Every text is, after all, a human document and whatever Kierkegaard thought…

— George Pattison

I'm not sure how far Derrida's later 'theological' interests are really rooted in post-structuralism or whether they don't rather reflect a kind…

— George Pattison

One of the most violent attacks on the Church in the Soviet Union was under Kruschev when, during a period of economic…

— George Pattison

What it does remind us is that 'God' is not to be separated from the quest for the Kingdom of God and…

— George Pattison

And one thing the void certainly can teach us is how to wait, how to become truly patient, and how to let…

— George Pattison

Ultimately, we live in the face of an irresolvable mystery about our origin and, for that matter, about our end. And what…

— George Pattison

In a sense these are questions that most people ask themselves to some extent. They become philosophical when asked with a persistence…

— George Pattison