Unquestioning faith soon slips into ideology, superstition, fanaticism, self-indulgence, and idolatry.
Faith seeks understanding passionately and relentlessly, or it languishes and eventually dies.
If faith raises ever new questions, then the theological task of the Christian community is to pursue these questions, to keep them alive, to prevent them from being forgotten or suppressed. Each of us is a mirror of eternal contemplation, with a reflection that must surely be that of the living Son of God with all his works. Such questions, often relegated to the realms of philosophy or religion, actually affect all of our lives in one way or another. Perhaps we quickly provide pat answers, maybe even biblical prooftexts, that we have learned without really understanding. The fact that the questions are there, and the reality that they must be addressed in one way or another, cannot be denied.