Essays in Unitarian Theology by Kenneth Twinn Lindsey - General ...

A PERSONAL AFFIRMATION
by Kenneth Twinn
Introduction
What I look for in religion is a system of thought that
will give meaning to life-not necessarily that will
answer all the questions I might raise, but that will give
coherence to my experience of the totality; and a
meaning which will at the same time suggest a way
of life, involve a commitment or categorical imperative
(to use whatever may be the jargon of the age), of the
whole man. The conclusions I have reached, the
system I have evolved, such as it is, is far from com-
plete; it can be shot at from many sides, no doubt.
It is not original, but influenced by what I have been
taught, by patterns of thinking in which I have been
brought up. I confess that I can never ultimately be
satisfied with it, and that I ought to keep on examining
it and modifying it, but it is something I can live by
now. I recognize that it should not conflict with any
facts that have been scientifically demonstrated, but
equally it must respond to and correspond with all
sides of my nature, spiritual and emotional as well as
purely rational: my insight as well as my five senses.
Therefore it has poetical as well as logical expres-
sion.
I was brought up a Baptist, but already in my early
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