From the Notebooks
Christian Studies in Skepticism
Significant: "Living in history, we experience only the present, the immediate. This is as it should be; it simplifies decision and directs action (for in this world only ignorance give us the freedom necessary to act)." Romano Guardini, The Lord, p. 363. Emphasis added.
This passage has a ton in it: skepticism, but also related ideas, like the importance of living in the Present, not only for holiness, but out of frank acknowledgment of our ignorance.
It's realism at its highest, most potent.
It shows the role of simplicity, which is, I think, a close cousin of skepticism. The holy peasant, I like to think, is a skeptic.
There is humility in skepticism: knowledge of our limitations gives us insight into others' innate limitations.
