We are experiencing God always. The experience of God, however, transcends our capacity to comprehend it. We will never fully grasp what God is, but this does not mean we should stop trying. Our ideas about God set the tone for our spiritual development. The further we are willing to journey into the mystery of God, the more we will be transformed by it. The bigger the ideas, the bigger the God, and the more our lives will reflect God. When I set out to write Where is God? it was my intention to entertain the biggest ideas possible. I wanted to understand the God of all things–the God of religion and science, the God of music and beauty, the God of life and death, the God of love. This is a book of ideas, big ideas.
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Andy Ross. Where is God?: A Theology for the Here and Now, Volume One
Where is God?
Table of Contents
Where is God in this Book?
Where is God in Creation?
Where is God in Suffering?
Where is God in Religion?
Where is God in My Life?
Where is God in the End?
Bibliography
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A Theology for the Here and Now
Volume One: An Introduction to Basic Concepts
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By altering our concept of time, we are better able to view creation from God’s perspective: eternity. Yet, eternity is not just now, it is here. Life expands and contracts as it is animated by God. The rate of this expansion (and contraction) is time. The relative distance between various aspects of creation is space. Just as the eternal now from which God creates does not change, neither does God’s orientation to what God creates. The here and now are both represented by the dot on the spiral view of time (Figure 3).
We are used to measuring space according to the position of our bodies in relation to other objects in creation. My body is in this location and your body is in that location. However, though our relative positions may differ according to the tool of measurement that we are using (inches, miles, light years, etc.), our experience of them originates in God’s eternal being, the here and now from which all life expands and to which all life returns (the dot).
