Summary of text [comment] pages 50 and 51
[The mathematical notation of exponentials or powers, where the base – think – is raised to the power of divine, provides a metaphor.
God’s transcendence is essential and unvarying.
However, our expressions of thinkdivine cannot be as essential and unvarying, because they exist to make sense of our actions and thoughts. We try to put the situation into context by cobbling perspectives together.]
Summary of text [comment] pages 50 and 51
God is not one cause among others.
God’s activity coincides with the transcendent and the immanent causalities of creating.
In His salvic activity, individual persons are called into dialogue.
Sin, in its deepest nature, is a “no” to this dialogue. Here, sin affects God in his relations to humans. Sin effects the relation from Person to person.
Holy Scripture describes God’s jealousy, anger, and sorrow. These are necessary for our understanding of God’s supernatural activity in his covenant.
