Christianity slips easily into a sweeping rhetoric of the universal. ‘All things have been created through him and for him’ (Colossians 1:16); ‘all things work together for good for those who love God’ (Romans 8:28). But these grand teachings come to life only when we let them draw us down to tiny particulars. Such insight as we have into Christianity’s universal truths depends on our acknowledging that the full view will never be ours. We receive only glimpses, in a succession of present moments. That it all somehow fits together is, in the end, a matter of pure, naked faith.
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