…this is based on a great confusion of thought. An old friend of mine who is now at the Pacific School of religion, Chris Becker, once made the observation that the scandal of the Christian Religion is that it regards reality as a person, that is to say…

…impersonal, collective and mechanical. And in a way I would entirely go along with this thought, not perhaps in the same way as Dr Becker would have intended it but I would say that if we go in one direction say we take the individual as a central…