Reddit mentions of The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion

That's because God exists exclusively in perception - faith is a way of seeing. God cannot be conceptualized by anybody other than Himself. Us human beings reach Him through bits of prayer, involvement, and personal revelation. To conceptualize Him is to conceive Him - and that is why it is impossible.

God's unique joy is to create something out of nothing, mankind's unique joy is to create something out of anything. (Paraphrasing Chesterton)

Marshall McLuhan put it this way--

>There is a great contrast between perceptual and conceptual confrontation; and I think that the “death of Christianity” or the “death of God” occurs the moment they become concept. As long as they remain percept, directly involving the perceiver, they are alive. (ML 81)

>I came in on my knees. That is the only way in. When people start praying, they need truths; that’s all. You don’t come into the Church by ideas and concepts, and you cannot leave by mere disagreement. It has to be a loss of faith, a loss of participation. You can tell when people leave the Church: they have quit praying. (ML 64)

When asked by Hubert Hoskins, “If I were to say that the traditional Christian doctrine of the Incarnation can be expressed by the phrase, ‘Christ is the medium and the message,’ is that a percept or a concept?”:

>It is a percept because, as Christ said over and over again, it is visible to babes, but not to sophisticates. The sophisticated, the conceptualizers, the Scribes and the Pharisees–these had too many theories to be able to perceive anything. Concepts are wonderful buffers for preventing people from confronting any form of percept. (ML 82)

https://www.amazon.com/Medium-Light-Reflections-Religion-Media/dp/1606089927