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Catholics do like to have everything nailed down with precise distinctions. That's the main beef our Orthodox brethren have with us.

Catholics specifically (and I think all Christians broadly) love to live in tension between seemingly opposed claims. The Eucharist is really food but it's also really Jesus. The Bible is really written by humans in their own way, but it's also really the product of the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. We are really supposed to leave behind all they have in this world to follow Christ, but also the material world is really created good and is for our benefit.

It seems Protestants have their own flavor of tension with the nature of the church. Scripture is the source and end of the truths, but where does the canon of Scripture come from, and how can we be sure of its inerrancy?

James A Lewis 2y ago

I like this tension, or really a harmony, between things as a real place to live. Even energy itself only does work in a gradient (electricity flows only with a voltage differential, things only roll down hill toward lower states of potential energy, high pressure pushes toward lower, etc.)

The virtues are the healthy mean between vices (courage balances recklessness with cowardice, and liberality balances frivolity and avarice). So too with the Faith do we find a tension or harmony between things: God is One yet also Three, we humans are animal yet also spiritual, and The Word became Flesh and dwelt among us yet is eternally begotten of the Father.

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