The Spirit Of Creation And Culture A Framework For...

II. The Presence of the Spirit in Creation and Culture: A Framework for Exploring God’s Immanence in Culture I see that this immanent frame of the small Irish community portrayed in the movie can be compatible with the view of the creation as the locus of God’s presence. In this understanding of the world, the integrity of creation is not diminished by God’s presence, but the history of the universe becomes the history of the Triune God. In other words, the merit of this perspective is to make room for God’s transcendent presence in the world of â€Å"a closed-web of cause-effect relations,† while not violating the integrity of creation. To be specific, according to the Trinitarian panentheism, the creation,†¦show more content†¦In that sense, there is a mutual relationship between the world and God, which will culminate in the eschaton in â€Å"the mutual indwelling of God and creation.† Accordingly, this perspective can provide t he immanent frame with room to speak of the Transcendent without violating the integrity of creatures. 1. The Spirit’s Universal Immanence as a Force Field According to Pannenberg, in this perspective, the Spirit’s dynamic presence in the world is funded by contemporary interdisciplinary dialogue between theology and natural science. The universe is inherently in an open-ended process of creation, and this makes it possible to speak of the Creator who is immanent within the universe. To be precise, according to the quantum cosmology, future occurrences are not free from the indeterminacy that â€Å"stands in contrast to the past as the realm of the factual, as well as the present as the point that possibility becomes factual.† Hence, our current laws of nature are only approximations, and need to be revised when new observations are made. This means that natural laws are both originated and subject to time.† In quantum physics, indeterminacy of natural occurrences is ontological, and the outcomes of measurements can be reported only in probability terms. Yet, for Pannenberg, even though quantum cosmology could provide a venue to speak of the eternal Creatorship of God within the universe, it does not constitute a metaphor for the universal presence of the