ABSTRACT

God and the Between is a simple book and a complex one. Simple: it is gripped by, and tries to come to grips with, the most elemental and ultimate of wonders: Is God? How is God? How turn to God? How turns God to us? What is, what is not, God? Complex: Once perplexity takes hold, it unwinds in multiple lines of wonder and worry; it precipitates many pathways of seeking; it evokes manifold responses that answer, hesitantly or jubilantly, to what God is or is not; it calls forth many hymns of mindfulness or lamentation that appeal to, or praise, what so shows itself as divine. One might have the suspicion that all of this, in a sense, is too much, and one would not be entirely wrong. Given all that, given the simplicity and the complexity, I think it worthwhile to highlight some of the crucial features of the overall approach as more fully outlined in the work as a whole.1