tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1692793350977058371.post3932236037316741512..comments2023-04-09T05:18:06.643-05:00Comments on Into the Expectation: An Effervescent God?Matt Gunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11230570081324464033noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1692793350977058371.post-89380264373336812472009-10-16T19:43:58.313-05:002009-10-16T19:43:58.313-05:00Psalm 104:16, says God created the Leviathan "...Psalm 104:16, says God created the Leviathan "for the sport of it". I wonder if that might be true for the whole shebang and us in it. Annie Dillard suggests we were created to charm him.Matt Gunterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11230570081324464033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1692793350977058371.post-40321538527643748682009-10-15T21:21:08.250-05:002009-10-15T21:21:08.250-05:00I am currently reading "Reason, Faith and Rev...I am currently reading "Reason, Faith and Revolution" which is the book that came from Terry Eagleton's Templeton Lectures. He takes on, indeed takes apart, Hitchins and Dawkins or as he conjoins them, "Ditchins." He suggests a view of the creator god as having made the entire universe and our place in it for the sheer joy and delight of it. That is indeed an idea of God that is much larger than most of us carry around.<br /><br />FWIW<br />jimBJimBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17312606954135884910noreply@blogger.com