Word on Fire posts a look at Catholic novelist Walker Percy:
For most of his life, Walker Percy believed that science contained the answers to all of life’s questions. But his time at the sanatorium convinced him that the human experience was too complex and too mysterious to be reduced to science alone. Science was true, yet it had no answers to the most important questions, specifically those dealing with human suffering and the meaning of life. He learned from Kierkegaard that faith was also a way to knowledge, and that faith actually gave him access to more satisfactory answers to his deepest questions than science ever could.Percy’s conversion to Catholicism was not dramatic—there was no big moment. There was, however, a recognition that Catholic Christianity did not run from the most important questions, but spoke to them, and not with the abstract and technical truth of science, but with the beauty, nuance, complexity and mystery of the truth of faith.
