There are no words
Southern Marches Area Meeting recently held a session on ‘God language’. This is the minute.
What is God? How do we put the inexpressible into words? Do our words divide us? Forty-one Friends from Southern Marches Area Meeting have met today [14 June] to discuss ‘God language’.
Looking at God language is timely, as we face a revision of Quaker faith & practice, when this fundamental question will have to be addressed. There is the Whoosh! Epistle of July 2012, asking whether we can ‘acquire the confidence to find our own words to express the ways in which we understand the divine? Can we encourage others as they reach for the language that is right for them?’ These new ways are continuously being explored in the Friend, where we read of ‘something other’, ‘a mysterious source of vital universal energies’, ‘an all-encompassing presence’, ‘the gnosis of the all-pervading unity’, ‘the place of unity and truth’, a ‘being that isn’t a being’.
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