always remains stubbornly inexpressible in the life of belief; the enigma abides to the last, as a shared frustration and delight. The doctrinal past can never be abandoned; but neither can the past remain simply the past as we imagine we know it, because the apocalyptic logic and promise of the tradition cannot be exhausted or fulfilled within history. And so I leave the matter here. Faith is the will to let the past be reborn in the present as more than what until now had been known, and the will