The Unlying God: Law Inspired and Inspiring in Plato's Ion and St. Paul's Letter to Titus

Abstract

Law requires more than belief; law requires trust. The words of justice, or rather, just words are no less soif we believe in them or not. But the words of justiceare indeed dead, or rather, lead to death, if we trustthe exigencies of our selves and our times more than thelaw, if we fail to find ever-unfolding inspirationtogether in the language of law. St. Paul, therefore,does not attempt to solve the liar paradox that everyhuman being confronts in any attempt to speak truthfully,i.e., with meaning as an individual; rather, he willingly accepts the absurdity of the knowledge oftruth by looking, as Plato also did, toward ``the unlyingGod'', not in the stasis of belief, but in the movementof trust, a communal covenant of those who are chosen,that is, those who chose each other.