A God within our reach

Andrew Sullivan comments on Freeman Dyson's arguments on the connection of theology and biology in his post "A God Beyond Our Understanding". When Dyson suggest, "So our theology also reflects our possibly skewed view of the world", Sullivan concurs, "It has to, of course, because we have no other way of knowing God." But that's not quite true, because there are other ways of knowing God, ways presented by contemplatives and mystics, ways that culminate in unio mystica wherein God, even Godhead, is known directly. But even to common folk, God is known intimately through deep faith, not through theology, analytical thought or conceptual framing, however useful these prove in the theological approach.

So, yes, a God beyond our understanding, but within our reach, much more close than we dare confess, absent from nothing, immanent in everything, greater than anything - Silent, yet Obvious.

And by the way, Dyson has a good point on Dawkins and a "heretical" stand on climate change, as well as an interesting grasp of cultural evolution as the new driving force of change. See the whole article here.