23 August 2007

• Triune: three in one; constituting a trinity in unity, as the Godhead.
• For more than a millennium, the West took inspiration from the Christian image of a triune God ruling over a created cosmos and guiding men by means of revelation, inner conviction and the natural order.
• Anodyne: a medicine that relieves or allays pain;relieving pain; soothing to the mind or feelings.
• For more than two centuries, promoters of modernization have taken it for granted that science, technology, urbanization and education would eventually “disenchant” the charmed world of believers, and that with time people would either abandon their traditional faiths or transform them in politically anodyne ways.