God, words and us: Three levels of reality, truth and faith

Priscilla Alderson reflects on themes addressed in God, words and us

In the seventeenth century, Isaac Penington and Isaac Newton were searching for something similar. As Isaac Pennington described it: ‘The end of words is to bring [us] to the knowledge of things beyond what words can utter.’

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