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Knowing and Not Knowing

God Cannot Be Thought
 Thursday, January 30, 2020

Augustinian priest Fr. Martin Laird is an author, retreat leader, and professor of early Christian studies at Villanova University. He is a gifted teacher who makes the history and practice of Christian contemplation accessible to people of all backgrounds. Here he relates the insights of The Cloud of Unknowing to the writings of St. Augustine of Hippo (354–430), the great theologian and bishop.

The fourteenth-century author of The Cloud of Unknowing acknowledges the distinction (not separation) between what our love can do and our thinking mind cannot. The author likens it to having two faculties, a faculty (or capacity) of the thinking, calculating mind and a faculty for loving. God created each of these. However, “God is forever beyond the reach of the first of these, the intellectual faculty; but by means of the second, the loving faculty, [God] can be fully grasped by each individual being.” [1]

The author [of The Cloud] clearly values the thinking mind. It is necessary for understandi

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About Martin Laird

Biography

Martin Scott Laird is an Orcadian artist. He is the son of the late Keith Laird, also an artist (and head of Kirkwall Grammar School art department). It has been suggested that Martin was reading about French Impressionism when other children were watching ‘Thundercats‘. Many a true word was said in jest!

Martin studied drawing and painting at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen, and later obtained a degree in architecture from the Scott Sutherland School (RGU), where he gained experience with 3d and graphic design software. He continues to work in both traditional and digital media.

Since 2012 Martin’s work has been increasingly political in nature. This is motivated by a sense of injustice and growing awareness of the democratic deficit faced by people living in Scotland. From 2017 onwards, he has contributed cartoons exploring various aspects of Orcadian history and culture alongside social criticism for The Orkney News and iScot magazine.

In 2019 Martin combined hand painted artwork wit

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