“1The
heavens declare the glory of God,
and the
sky above proclaims his handiwork.
2Day to day pours out speech,
and
night to night reveals knowledge.
3There is no speech, nor are there words,
whose
voice is not heard”
Psalm 19:1-3
A Theology of Everything
There
is theology in everything. That is not
to say that we take our theology from anywhere except from the Bible. Nor is it to say that everything is God. As Daniel Hames says:
“Far
from being a sort of polytheistic belief that there is a ‘divine spark’ in
everything, or that everything is god, the Christian view of creation and
indeed all of reality is that it bears the fingerprints of the one who formed
it.”
Rather
it is that in everything we can see reflections of theology, images of God and
his nature. It is somewhat like the fact
that baptism and the Lord’s Supper are both material events which nevertheless
reflect great spiritual realities.
Likewise, the mundane things in life can be seen to reflect profound
truths. The case for forming such a ‘theology
of everything’ is laid out more fully by Daniel Hames in his article on
Theology Network: Why and How to do a Theology of Everything from where the previous quote comes from. What I want to do here is not to cover that
ground again but rather just to offer some of my own application of that
principle.
