[Dialogue] so i turn again to this wisdom pool

The statement, "When the external situation creates an internal crisis from which we seek to escape, it is at that point that the question of God is raised" -- or something like that, was used to give a framework to the Question of God lecture in the Ecumenical Institute's "Question of God" lecture. What was the source of this statement? Something in Kierkegaard? Thanks for any help. I am frantically trying to swim in the deep waters of Gene Marshall's Zoom Symposium on a new Christian theology. Jim Wiegel “We are all time travelers journeying into the future. But let us make that future a place we want to visit. “ Stephen Hawking