Although the Old and New Testaments
imply many philosophical convictions about reality, knowledge, and values, the
Bible is primarily concerned with God's creative, saving, and empowering
acts in history. However, many perennial expressions referring to God
are not found in the Bible (or in The Book of Common Prayer),
e.g., immanent, ineffable, mystical, numinous, Oneness, transcendent,
and Wholly Other. Frequently these terms have entered the Christian tradition
by using reason that employed categories of ancient Greek philosophy. The
editor proposes that these terms are among those that distort the fundamental
convictions embedded in the Bible. (See the writings of E. La B. Cherbonnier
and Frank G. Kirkpatrick within subsites of this website.)