ABSTRACT
It is equally implausible to say that the mystery refers to the metaphysical knowledge which it makes no sense to say we can attain. In so far as Whittaker emphasises mystery as that which faith excludes, as that which lies beyond it, his reading of the natural religious setting would come close to that of Conway. The picture changes when mystery is seen as part of the grammar of our notion of God. It is tempting to argue that since man may be depicted as bowing in subjection before the inscrutableness of an omnipotent will in most of the examples, the only rational reaction is resigned acceptance of whatever happens. What the story shows is one possibility of the way in which the acceptance of a mystery is mediated through the way it is possible to think of other people.
