John C. Worsley ([info]lx) wrote,
@ 2009-06-04 20:51:00
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Current music:Massive Attack.
Entry tags:angel, montréal

The Attendant.

the attendant.
"The explanation generally advanced for this phenomenon is the increasing emphasis upon God's transcendence. During this period, the sense of God's immediate presence and involvement in human affairs, so evident in the pre-exilic biblical narratives, has clearly diminished. Reality is conceived as being more complex and God more distant. His involvement in the world is mediated by a ramified apparatus of servants, assistants, and the like."

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