Epistemology of doubt

Andrew Sullivan has an excellent long form article on Pope Francis, available I believe only through subscription to his blog (but that is well worth it), in which he notes that “the second great correction of Benedict, after the abrupt removal of the papacy from its authoritarian pedestal, is an epistemology of doubt as the central truth of faith.”

This is both beautiful and profoundly mysterious, a way of recognizing that the deep center of faith lies in unknowing — but an unknowing that is neither debilitating nor relativizing, but rather a call to love fully, freely, and in whole.