Language about God is something like the language of poetry-intended not to increase our information about the world-we know facts about the world already-but to evoke in us a certain attitude or way of looking at things or feeling about things.

KEITH WARD recently retired as Regius Professor of Divinity and head of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oxford. A priest of the Church of England and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, he holds Doctor of Divinity degrees from Cambridge and Oxford Universities. He was formerly Dean of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and Professor of History and Philosophy of Religion at the University of London.