Faith and vulnerability

"It becomes very dangerous if we, as a culture, lose our capacity to be vulnerable."

 "Faith minus vulnerability is extremism." 

Eco, Name of the Rose

The Antichrist can be born from piety itself, from excessive love of God or of the truth...
Umberto Eco, Name of the Rose

the only relevant critical examination of Christian beliefs

Since “Christian beliefs are…living convictions which give shape to
actual lives and actual communities,” James McClendon has written,
“the only relevant critical examination of Christian beliefs may be
one which begins by attending to lived lives.”