Faith is the Real Crisis

A modern scripture scholar has spelled this out: “When he believes God, man knows revealed truth through the infallible knowledge God has of himself and consequently shares in the divine consciousness.” (Juan Alfaro, OSB) The ineffable knowledge that comes through faith is, for teaching purposes, partly reduced to propositions about salvation. But its full scope is to lead us into the mind of Almighty God himself. “Faith is a divinizing, supernatural participation in the very life of God.”