When we realize that skepticism itself is a part of the nature of belief, that the certainty on which modernism was founded and which it promised is in fact no more than a part of the nature of belief, then we will see that faith, which modernism felt forced to forsake, is satisfyingly fertile for us. But I think that because that world needs faith, and because we are so in need of faith-giving, a postmodern world will not be as brittle (or as ironic) as the postmodernists are inclined to portray it.

Philip Chase Bobbitt, Philip Chase Bobbitt - Refl…, loc. 394