For a long time now I’ve been doing research on the
complex debate about God and the world, better known in some circles as
pantheism, panentheism, and classical theism. Here’s an ultra-brief summary of
a few of my present reflections. God is giveness. God is personal and
relational. God creates the world as a free choice and the world is related to
and distinct from God. The world is in God and God is in the world, yet God is infinitely
bigger than the world. God is engaged by the world and creatures in it, but is
not dependent on them to exist. The Divine is not emerging, nor in the process
of becoming. The world is not necessary for the Creator, but through creating
the world it becomes a necessity for God, if God is going to bring about
something better through it. Thus, God does not require the world as an
essential dimension of God’s Godness, though God is shaped by it and for it.
God is not dialectical in the sense that God is good and evil, free and
determined, fullness and emptiness, but God is dialogical in that communicative
action and passionate love are the theological heartbeat of who the giving of
the world God is.
0 comments:
Post a Comment