anguage may be limited and flawed (Church language may be hard. But God must transcend words, 27 January) as are we who use it, but surely no other medium so liberates the imagination and the intellect, so engages with the struggle to share consciousness and express the ineffable. The Word is a poetic expression of the search for a relationship and connection with God’s love, both in and of the moment, beside which any amount of dumbshow, drama, bells and whistles seems more performance than performative. The Word, a thought in the mind of man, may just allow us to “see through a glass darkly” indeed, rather than as we would render it now, “to see in a mirror, dimly”. “Middle-class”? Oh please.
Tim Brierley
South Newington, Oxfordshire
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• This letter was amended on 2 February 2017. The article it refers to was printed on 27 January, not 27 February as we originally had it.
