My "Zen Calendar" for tomorrow--Wednesday, May 25--quotes Paul Cezanne: "I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing."
If a theologian isn't inclined to say much the same thing about his/her theologizing, s/he isn't worth much as a theologian.
On December 6, 1273, Thomas Aquinas had an experience that led him to abandon the Summa, saying that it and his other writings were so much "straw in the wind". Aquinas died "four months later while en route to the Council of Lyons, overweight and with his health broken by overwork.”
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