Confidence in God?
Stanley L. Jaki
Confidence building has become the hottest pursuit of our times. A wild
variety of means is being tried, only to invite ever new methods. They
all show drastic shortcomings. For that reason alone it may be worth
taking a new and serious look at the question of whether one can have
confidence in God.
God has always been a mysterious being, but he is especially so in a
post-Christian age that has become oblivious to the fact of Christ in
whom God has become a most concrete being. And so did confidence which
it was the purpose of Christ's life on earth to build and perpetuate.
Such is the topic of the first chapter.
Christ achieved the building of that confidence by undergoing a
baptism, his death, so that by rising from the dead, he may assure all
those who are baptized that they, too, can cope with death, this
greatest threat to human confidence. This is why baptism has become the
foremost treasure of the Catholic Church, as is shown in the second
chapter.
The third chapter is about saints as so many models of unshaken
confidence in God.
Stanley L. Jaki, the author of more than forty books, is the winner of
the Templeton Prize for 1987.