““Theodicy ... what is involved is not a theoretical answer to the enigma of evil ... but an answer of faith ... God's being is expressed in earthly suffering, not an "uninvolved heavenly holiness" ... The atheistic protest is rendered mute by the theology of the cross ... the abstract questions of theodicy fall away in the shadow of the event of the cross ... the reality of the cross, a reality that offends human logic ... counters all natural expectations of divine power ... In the environs of Jesus Christ, we are conscious of both transcendence and closeness. It is a transcendence, however, that is not empty transcendence. And it is a closeness that reveals that God's answer transcends even our highest concepts.””
![“We are compelled by reflection to recognize that God is not to be placed against the material world [as in Christianity], but must be placed as a 'divine power' or 'moving spirit' within the cosmos itself ... All the wonderful phenomena of nature around us, organic as well as inorganic, are only…” quote by Ernst Haeckel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2f0/ernst-haeckel-20972_christianity_we-are-compelled-by-reflection-to-recogn_133705.jpg)
