We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding
Any exploration from the world of science into the mystery of God will, if genuine, ipso facto be consummated in a deeper insight into the same One ‘than which nothing greater can be thought’,† who was only partially and more fallibly discerned at the start of any reflection on the created order illuminated by the sciences. It will not be God who has changed in our quest but we in our perception and experience of the divine. Hence the forging of a Christian theology in the white heat of the scientific world of the twenty-first century is a task not of iconoclasm but of the disclosure of profounder and more comprehensive ways of building on the well-winnowed insights of generations of seekers after God.
† Anselm, Proslogion, II.