When Bultmann speaks of the deity, he uses the image of a “mysterious power” (and the complementary phrase “the activity of God”) that drives human beings (and all creation) this way and that by care, yet cuts each aspiration off in its finitude. This has always begged the question of whether the Most Holy One is a personal entity with a unique purpose intimately and directly interacting with the world or not. This, of course is where I part company with Spong and his “a-theism” or Tillich who speaks of his God not as a being, but Being Itself, Being's ground. Also, I finally part company with Barth and his wholly transcendent understanding of divinity. Seems to me that if we affirm that we are “Christian,” we carry the baggage (much of which is poorly packed) of an involved God standing in mutual inter-relationship with all of creation (even you and me). It is a deity that acts in a direct and intimate way. So then, God is not wholly an object, but also a subject.
Saturday, March 17, 2007
God as Mysterious Power
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