Although each creature contains God and God contains each creature, the divine containing is unqualified, but the creaturely containing is more or less drastically qualified. All views expressed in this essay are those of the author. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities– all things were created through him and for him.
66:1). As Berdiaev urges, the most pertinent question is not "Is God in the world?" While affirming God’s transcendence, Scripture speaks in clear and certain language about his nature and actions. The Pauline saying, that in God "we live and move and have our being," can be taken literally without necessarily implying pantheism.To say that God feels the feelings of all creatures is to contradict the doctrine of classical theism that God is impassible, wholly unaffected by others.
The idea of God, however, is nonempiri-cal and metaphysical. According to theism, immanence occurs in various degrees, more in the personal than the impersonal, in the good than in the evil." “Heaven” is a way to refer to God’s throne (Isa. I feel confident there will be other writers in this collective enterprise whose confusions will contrast with mine. Can mere intellect (whatever that isIt is fair to add that there is no agreement in the West on the reality of divine love. 139:7–12), not only because he made everything and governs everything by his plan (Eph. The biblical language of God “on high” or “in Heaven” refers uniformly to God’s royal dignity. The Gospel Coalition exists to equip the next generation of believers, pastors, and church leaders to shape life and ministry around the gospel. If God is to know us, God must know our feelings. Divine omnipotence is a divine operative attribute, an… Origins of Transcendence and Immanence The idea of a transcendent God has roots both in Judaism and in Neoplatonic philosophy. He is the author of two books on Hegel and two on Kierkegaard, he also works on continental philosophy of religion in the contexts of existentialism, phenomenology, hermeneutics, ideology critique, and deconstruction. “For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor? The divine finitude must encompass at least the world's finitude and also its infinity in whatever sense the world is infinite. If the word Step by step, the reasoning of simple or nondual transcendence has been examined by this and other writers. Dealing as they do with what is eternal and necessary, including the eternal and necessary aspects of God, metaphysical statements are true if they make coherent sense and false otherwise. If there is any genuine freedom in the creatures, they will do things they might not have done. Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the LORD your God. In Whitehead's view, God's "primordial nature" is simple (I would say even simpler than Whitehead makes it) but God's "consequent nature" is the most complex reality there is. All rights reserved. Can a fragment of reality comprehend the encompassing? 19:1–4)Through the Leviticus text, the refrain “I am the LORD your God” is repeated fifteen times to reinforce the truth that Israel’s law is based on the authority of Gold’s lordship over them.God’s control and authority are such that he is present, immanent in all of his creation. And if it be said that since God is simple, God cannot contain a duality, the reply is ready: the divine simplicity is itself only one side of the duality of transcendence.
Belief in the divine uniqueness can survive the admission that it is not change but certain kinds of change, not dependence but certain kinds of dependence, that are excluded by the divine excellence.
It was As a matter of fact, the premise of the negative waySimilarly, knowledge of the contingent must be contingent. Allah is not Yahweh. His separation, or transcendence, was signified by the fact that the camp was separated from the tabernacle on all four sides by the Levites and Moses, Aaron and the priests (Num. Within the “Cite this article” tool, pick a style to see how all available information looks when formatted according to that style. It was taken for granted that truth is an extreme with error its opposite. Recent books include Suspicion and Faith: The Religious Uses of Modern Atheism (Fordham University Press, 1998), Overcoming Onto-theology: Toward a Postmodern Christian Faith (Fordham, 2001), Transcendence and Self-Transcendence: On God and the Soul (Indiana University Press, 2004), Levinas and Kierkegaard in Dialogue (Indiana, 2008), and Whose Community? Change in God seems to imply, and Berdiaev hints at this, a divine kind of time. Divine transcendence does Some ancient and modern writers, however, have taken God’s transcendence to mean something else:God is so far above us, so very different from anything on earth, that we can say nothing, at least nothing positive, about him.
That the issue is worldwide and intercultural is remarkably well illustrated by the following coincidences.Finally, I want to focus on the proposition "God is love."
What we are and what God cannot be is fragmentary.