ABSTRACT
The form of God's relationality to others, when God is understood as an agent, is historical. History, as a mode of understanding, is the stories or narratives of the acts of intentional agents. Science tells about what takes place in the world in the absence of intentional action. Science might better be understood as a description of the world underlying the field of action upon which agents act. Acts by God refined and conditioned those structures, at least in part in order to make possible the creation of human life. The dilemma for theists is that they want more than an uncertain construal of God's reality and purpose. They want to justify a firm conviction that God is real and that God acts in their lives. The fact of the realization of a construed purpose needs to be distinguished from the actions that are construed to be expressive of it.
