Naming the Unnameable. Dr. Rev. Matthew Fox

      Where and Who is God in all this? Jantsch continues: “The divine, however, becomes manifest neither in personal nor any other form, but in the total evolutionary dynamics of a multilevel reality. Instead of the numinous, we may also speak of meaning. Each of us would then, in Aldous Huxley’s terms, ‘be Mind-at-large’ and share in the evolution of this all-embracing mind and thus also in the divine principle, in meaning…. The God-idea does not stand above and outside of evolution as an ethical norm, but in true mysticism is placed into the unfolding and self-realization of evolution.”

      If God is the “mind” of the universe, we should remember that “mind” is not without heart or love. Mind is inclusive of love wherever we see mind at work.

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      God Is Evolution and Pure Potential

      Jantsch maintains that God abandons himself many times in a sequence of evolution in which he transforms himself. God is thus “not absolute, he evolves himself—he is evolution. Since we have called the self-organizing dynamics of a system its mind, we may now say that God is not the creator, but the mind of the universe.” The “‘God-structure’ is neither form nor quantity, but the non-unfolded, the totality of undifferentiated qualities. It is pure potential.”

      This last point is especially striking since in the Aristotelian tradition adapted by Thomas Aquinas God is called “pure act.” The idea of God as “pure potential” indicates some feminist influence in tapering down mere Yang energy with some Yin energy. It holds up the Creative and Motherly dimension to Divinity in a special way.