Is this anyway for God to be God?
http://experimentaltheology.blogspot.com/ (Richard Beck) In his book Christ on Trial Rowan Williams describes the transcendence and radical Otherness of God as that which is wholly separate from the ways in which we might accomplish success or find security in this world . Transcendence, in this view, does not accomplish anything in this world. If it did, if God was effective , then God would become a tool we would use to justify and secure our self-interests. God, in that instance, would be a means rather than an end . Consequently, the radical transcendence of God will be experienced by us to be a radical ineffectiveness , that God accomplishes nothing by way of success or security in this world. Another way to say this is that God's transcendence is experienced as a sort of failure . In the language of Paul, the cross is foolishness to the world. Jesus's exultation and victory appears, for all intents and purposes, to be a failure. We can't use the ...