Matthew Parris Matthew Parris

Another Voice | 2 August 2008

The really irrational thing once you have faith is to entertain reasonable doubts

issue 02 August 2008

Until recently I never realised that triangulation had entered theology as well as politics. But listening to Thought for the Day on BBC radio the other day, it struck me that modern churchmen, too, are triangulating the deepest question of all in religion: the question of faith. Faith is now advanced as the triangulation between disbelief and certainty.

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