(The story of an online friend’s journey out of one kind of faith to another)…

“After theology, it was intellectual theological ‘wet’s’ who influenced me to a bent away from my early faith, from miracle, from resurrection and so from faith and the church… and towards the hubris and edge of rationalism that I now see as too often enlightened in the luciferian sense of the term.

In passionate nature I went fully along and fell down the far end of that oad into despair, and then loaded the gun to do away with myself.

I didn’t only because I had an epiphany.

It was not preachers or theologians, but the epiphanous, the creatively inspired, poets and creative writers who led me back to Christ and faith and the church: Chesterton, Auden, Elliot, Simone Weil, C.S.Lewis, Tolkien, Flannery O’Connor, Florence Allshorn, Les Murray, and others covered in Joseph Pearce’s ‘Literary Converts’. I even discovered that Oscar Wilde & Bruce Chatwin came to faith in their last rally, as I suspect did evil Kerry ‘Black Hole’ Packer.

I also discovered along the way that the great Cartesian method of the last and recent age was inspired by what Roszak calls ‘Descarte’s Angel’ – and the ‘Discourse and Method and Meditations’ on which so-called scientific method, (and historical critical method) is based, was given to Descartes in a dream by an angel….

That they don’t teach that in theological school, let alone any other school I went to, explains much disjunct and downfall. Half the Bible is poetry, and when poetry goes out of faith, so faith will follow. The eureka-moment, the inspiration in the poetry feeds more that my mere mind, (or the luciferian mind), but inspiration as it is in the Bible is the epiphany of vision. Cockburn calls it “Nothing But a Burning Light.””