Page History

...

My answer to the question, then, summarily is: God is where God is in all times, tough or not tough – doing what God unfailingly does in every time. I shall now briefly unpack this summary answer.

God unfailingly does mainly two things. First, God makes whatever comes to be really possible, in fact as well as in principle; and, second, God

3

makes whatever comes to be both really real and abidingly significant. In doing the first thing, God may be said to create and emancipate, or providentially order, all things; and in doing the second thing, God may be said to redeem and consummate all things. Because, in both cases, God's doing extends to all things, God is rightly said to be, in the one case, the Creator, and, in the other case, the Consummator – all other things being, in their myriad different ways, also creators and consummators, although always only of some things, never of all.

But if God in tough times is where God is in all times, doing what God alone unfailingly does in every time, two implications follow necessarily.

...