Joad: getting started

Tuesday, June 16, 2020
    Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253
    Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752
Meditation:
    In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
    Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
    —Genesis 1:1-2 (NIV)
Quotation:
    Whatever be our conception of the universe we must, it is obvious, start somehow; we must begin with something; and the something with which we begin, from the very fact that we do begin with it, must itself be without explanation, since, if something else were invoked to explain it, then the “something else” must needs be logically prior to that which it is invoked to explain. Thus the “something” being explained by a logically prior “something else” could not have been ultimate.
    ... C. E. M. Joad (1891-1953), God and Evil, New York: Harper, 1943, p. 87 (see the book)
    See also Gen. 1:1-2; John 1:1-5; Col. 1:16-17; Heb. 1:2
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, all things begin with You. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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