Transcendence of God
186The Worldview that Shaped Western Civilization
25 Mar 2024
21:57¶ 73
“Your ultimate priorities generate your ethics. The source of law in any society, as Rushdoony would say, is the god of that society. So…”
22:23¶ 75
“Yes, he is the transcendent Creator of all that exists, and thus he can speak with authority in a catholic sense that crosses all…”
32:33¶ 116
“And since the non-Christian world has no transcendent God, they necessarily have to find their source of values within an imminent creation, that is…”
37Image and Word (part 1)
13 Sep 2020
35:54¶ 115
“He didn’t and couldn’t point to any particular thing in creation and find himself summed up in that. Apollo could say, “I am light.”…”
36:10¶ 116
“Yahweh can’t do that. He can’t point to one thing. He can’t even say, “I am the whole universe together,” because he transcends the…”
36:28¶ 119
“He is the self-contained absolute self-sufficient God, and this over against all forms of paganism that would try to make God identical with the…”
23The Sacrifice of Isaac
7 Jun 2020
1:33¶ 5
“The human heart in its search for would-be autonomy is torn between rationalism and irrationalism or, to put it differently, it is irrationalistic and…”
2:09¶ 7
“We’re too puny to understand, so we just lock God out of his own universe by emphasizing his supposed transcendence.”
3:40¶ 11
“But the idea since Kierkegaard has been that whatever God is, he cannot be boxed in. He cannot be constrained within the limits of…”