Praise the source of faith and learning
Praise the source of faith and learning. Thomas Troeger* (1945-2022).
From New Hymns for the Church: to make our prayer and music one (New York and Oxford, 1992), reprinted in Borrowed Light (1994). It was commissioned by Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, to be a hymn on its motto, ‘Faith and Learning’. It is in four 8-line stanzas, based on Proverbs 2: 6, in which ‘the Lord gives wisdom’. It emphasizes not only the importance of faith and scholarship, but also the need for humility before mysteries that are beyond human understanding. This is particularly clear in stanza 2 lines 5-8:
Far beyond our calculation
Lies a depth we cannot sound
Where your purpose for creation
And the...
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