Act of Being, 20, 29, 58, 120, 121
agency, vii, xiii–xiv, 1–5, 9, 15–17, 19, 21, 23, 36–37, 43–44, 49, 52, 60–62, 65–69, 71–87, 90, 92–93, 87–107, 113–14, 122, 125–27, 129–32, 144–46, 149, 152
Alston, William, 120–23
anthropomorphism, vii, xii, 3, 6–8, 17, 23, 26, 49–50, 63, 65, 68, 103–6
apex being, xi, 91, 96–97, 100, 103, 124, 126, 148–49, 153
apophatic, xiv, 26–27, 31, 52–53, 63
Aquinas, Thomas, 27, 32, 51, 104–5
Aufhebung, 36, 47–48
Barth, Karl, 24, 29, 39, 129, 133, 142–46
basho, 44–45
basic actions, 121
Being-Itself, 4, 10, 38–39, 44
Brueggemann, Walter, 133–34, 145
Brummer, Vincent, 114
Bultmann, Rudolf, 111–14
Burrell, David, 30
Caputo, John, 38, 144
Carlson, Thomas A, 41
causality, xiv, 11–12, 19, 78, 80, 84–89, 96, 101, 111, 113, 115, 118–19, 124, 128
Clayton, Philip, xii, x–xi, 11, 124–26
Colledge, Edmund, 52
continuant, 75, 83–86, 89
Coreth, Emerich, 32–37, 40, 45
creation, vii, 12, 15, 18–19, 27, 29, 37, 40, 42, 53, 55, 73, 117, 123, 125, 132, 142, 147
creationism, viii–x
Dawkins, Richard, viii, 65
de Certeau, Michel, 43
Derrida, Jacques, 42
Descartes, Rene, 62, 71
detachment, 57
différance, 38, 42
differentiation, 27–32, 35–36, 45, 48, 51, 55, 59, 71, 75–76, 100, 107
disinterest, 57
dualism, xii, 3, 7–9, 16, 23, 28–30, 32, 44–45, 48–49, 51, 53, 59–60, 70, 73, 90, 103, 107, 112, 125–28, 148
Dupre, Louis, 50
Eckhart, Meister, 34, 46, 48, 50–58, 71, 100, 126
Erigena, John Scotus, 31–32, 45
evil, 17–18
evolution, viii–ix, xi, 14, 17, 64–65, 75–76, 132
existential intuition (EI), 71
explanatory ultimacy, 91–92, 95
Farrer, Austin, 113–14
freedom, xv, 3, 6, 11, 13, 18, 47, 69–70, 77, 93, 106, 112, 132–33, 142, 145
Gilkey, Langdon, 111–12, 140
God as Agent, vii–viii, xiii, 6, 10, 17–18, 37, 82, 90, 97, 106–7, 116, 130–31, 135, 151
Godhead, 38, 51, 53–55
Haught, John, ix–xi, 125
Hector, Kevin, 129, 143–44
Hegel, G.W.F., 36, 47–48
Heidegger, Martin, 144–45
history, vii, xiii, 17–18, 73, 111–14, 129–31, 133–43, 145–49
infrastructure, x–xii, xv, 11, 18–20, 65–70, 77, 83–88, 91–96, 100–101, 109–10, 114, 118, 121, 124, 130, 136, 144, 148–49
intelligent design, viii–xi, 14, 17
intentions/intentionality, x–xi, xv, 4–7, 11, 16, 18–20, 49, 64–65, 67, 70, 74, 76–78, 80–86, 88–89, 91, 95–96, 106, 110, 116, 119, 121, 123–24, 131–39, 141–43, 147–49
interference, viii, xiv, 19–20, 84, 110, 119–20, 123–24
intervention, x, xiv, 12, 19, 78, 87–88, 95, 110, 116–20, 123–28, 140
Jesus, 15, 111, 132–33, 139, 141–42, 147–48
John XXII, Pope, 52
Kant, Immanuel, xv, 60, 112, 148
Kaufman, Gordon, 111–12, 114, 140
Kitaro, Nishida, 44
Lessing, G.E., 131, 140
Levinas, Emmanuel, 42
Luria, Isaac, 37
Macmurray, John, xiv, 62–69, 72–77, 79, 81–86, 88–92, 96, 102–7, 119–23, 126–27, 131–35, 137, 143–48
Marion, Jean-Luc, 41–43
Matthews, Eric, 72
McGinn, Bernard, 50, 52
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 72
metaphysics, ix, 2, 31–33, 41, 43–46, 54, 104, 124, 129–30, 134, 143–49
Michelangelo, 73
Moltmann, Jurgen, 37
monism, xii, 7–9, 23–24, 27–34, 44, 48–51, 57–60, 70, 73, 90, 103, 106, 126–28
mystery, vii–viii, xii–xvi, 1–7, 11, 18, 30–36, 39, 46, 49, 54, 63, 66, 69, 93, 99–100, 103, 111, 127, 149, 151–53
mysticism, xii, 34, 37, 48–50, 54, 58–59, 100
nothingness, 31, 44–46, 63, 151
oneness, xiv, 9–10, 20, 23, 26, 34, 36, 45, 48–51, 54, 57–59, 63, 71, 90, 100, 103, 107, 126–28, 151
ontic power, 86, 90
ontological transcendence, 3, 20, 26, 30, 58, 90, 106–7
Otherness, 4, 8–10, 16, 23–26, 28–32, 34, 36–38, 40–41, 43–44, 47–51, 57–58, 63, 90, 103, 106–8, 126, 144, 151–52
panentheism, 37, 125–28
Pannenberg, Wolfhart, 2, 130, 136, 145–48
Peacocke, Arthur, x–xi, xiv, 11, 124–26
Plantinga, Alvin, 136–37
Pols, Edward, xi, xiv, 11, 65–67, 77–81, 84–106, 109–10, 112, 116, 118–27, 134, 140, 145, 148, 152–53
prayer, 1, 12, 14, 18, 20–21, 80
primary being, 91, 98–103, 127, 152
primordiality, x–xi, xiii, 2–3, 5, 9, 15, 18, 21, 51, 53–54, 57, 61–65, 78–79, 85, 93, 96, 99, 102, 118, 127–31, 134–35, 144–45
process thought, 132
Pseudo-Dionysius, 26–27, 52–53
quantum level, 115–18, 122
reductionism, xii, xii, 86, 93, 119–20
Reid, Thomas, 75
relationality, xiv, 2, 4, 8, 34, 39, 51, 55, 57, 66, 73–74, 105, 151–52
religious experience, viii, 11, 45–46, 52, 138, 141
resistance, 48, 66, 73–75, 82–83, 105–6, 145
Rorem, Paul, 27
Russell, Robert, 115–16, 125
Saunders, Nicholas, 115, 117
Scripture, vii, xiii, 12, 14–5, 17, 19–20, 139–40
Stace, W.T., 34, 51, 58–59
STMW (Spatio-Temporal-Material-World), 6–7, 12–13, 15, 19, 24–25, 30–31, 59, 63, 65, 71, 79–80
supervention, 94–96, 124, 127, 140
Tallis, Raymond, xiv, 65–79, 84, 90, 104–7, 118–19, 123, 134
Taylor, Mark C., 9, 40, 45
Tillich, Paul, 38–39, 53
Torrance, Thomas, 133–34, 138, 144–49, 151
Tracy, Thomas, 113–14, 117–18, 122
Turner, Denys, 27, 29
U-factor, 98–99, 101, 127
Ward, Keith, 113
Whitehead, Alfred North, xi, 97, 125
wholly other, 4, 13, 24, 38–39, 143
Wiles, Maurice, 114
ZimZum, 37