27 October 2011

Sistine Chapel

Another from Elton's Reformation Europe:
The God of the Sistine Chapel is the pre-Reformation God: man's answer to the problem of the universe.

Now, of course, the 'answer' is not God, not a person, not the one who is love, and makes our love of value, but the universe ourself...a mere pile of powder, albeit a big one, above which nothing can rise!