Are Flying Boys Useless?

Painting by Rene Magritte

Poets get there first, and artists and musicians. Only later do the intellectuals and theologians follow suit. Philosophers come after the poets and before the theologians, who only ‘see’ once it has all been written down. Theologians spend a long time mourning the death of the old God and as such are not predisposed to welcoming the new.

David Tacey
Edge of the Sacred