"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."

Francis Bacon 1561-1626

What a great way of explaining why we should allow more chaos in debate - particularly about faith and those things in the church that we must admit we cannot be sure of. You can probably tell I'm on a bit of a thought stream here......

"If we operate on the assumption that society is plural, differentiated, that there is no monopoly on knowledge, or even no single vantage point from which the whole can be observed then there is no 'one' who can decide: decisions must therefore have to be made by some combination of 'others', however those are identified and defined".

Julia Black (2000) 'Proceduralizing Regulation: Part I'