Transcending praise
There is a movement these days toward pushing God far above and far away with a transcending praise. This is often also a pride-full We’re on the home team.
I wonder if these pastors and preachers in the praise churches are conscious of the ego and pride into which they are inviting people?
Still, there is the pull to intimate immanence, even in those churches. Let God into your life, get to know Jesus they preach and I suspect believe.
So, to move beyond this. How do I see God as transcendent? Buber was true to his Hebrew roots by conceiving God who is over against, in whose face we stand, and this God stands in ours: this comes from the no images commandment. Since I have been working on no images, I find that I less often pray as such but I do speak with you as friend. Yet that too is image. You are all about, in everything. The Hebrew I think may have seen God as unspeakable (tetragrammaton), yet surely other and apart (Moses covering his face after meeting face to face; the robe alone filling the temple).
:- Doug.
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