"The apostle Paul warned of those who “exchanged the truth about God for a lie” (Rom. 1:25). But such a lie is so good because it looks and sounds like the truth. The exchange can happen under cover of theology itself! Such spiritual dishonesty will not be answered by a wimp-out relativism (as in “The priest has his opinion, I have another, what is yours?”). It was answered in this case by a spontaneous and confident counter-truth. The capacity to speak truth– sometimes to power, sometimes to the disempowered– is what in the religious traditions we mean by “witness” or “testimony.”"
— Catherine Keller, On the Mystery, page 13
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