| p24 | What is the threat? A world handed over into indignity and meaninglessness. Indignity and meaninglessness steal away the will to live and so bring death. Beset by indignity and meaninglessness the will to live perishes. There is nothing to live "for" because there is nothing to consecrate life "to." The great "to" which is the presence of the unnameable … the dignity and meaning. The hopelessness of indignity and meaninglessness is overcome by one thing only: faith. Faith is the abiding sense of meaning and dignity that is the unnameable … the hidden. |