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A review of my writings shows that recognition of the pertinence of Paul's implicit definition of God as the all-encompassing, transcendental whole is nothing new or recent -- or confined solely to my Notebooks (22 November 1996; 15 September 1999). Already in "Present Prospects for Empirical Theology" (published in 1969), I say that "the God of Scripture is the utterly transcendent One of whom Paul says, finally, that 'from him and through him and to him are all things' (Rom. 11:36)" (73). And, in "On Revelation" (first published in 1975), I say that "[w]hen Paul confesses . . . that for Christians, 'there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist' (1 Cor. 8:6), or, in ascribing glory to God, attests that 'from him and through him and to him are all things' (Rom. 11:36), any merely mythical or categorial understanding of God is clearly transcended" (quoted from On Theology: 25).

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