Only Transcendence Supports Immanence

"When the world is so flattened that all we have is the immanent, the immanent implodes upon itself. In contrast to such nihilism and materialism, only a participatory ontology – in which the immanent and material is suspended from the transcendent and immaterial – can grant the world meaning. …. Following Augustine, every created reality is absolutely nothing in itself…."


James K.A. Smith, Introducing Radical Orthodoxy, p.75