The Touch of Transcendence: A Postcolonial Theology of God

How far away is God? How different is God from human beings? This is the theological question of transcendence and theology has long struggled to find answers that affirm a human relationship with God. In this provocative new work Mayra Riveras answer is that God is not within human grasp but is always within human touch. With a strikingly relevant concept of God as transcendent within--transcendence different from the ideas of God as far away as outside human life and experience or as above the human plane of existence--Rivera concentrates on transcendence as a relationship and uses it to describe how humans can touch God. In doing so she engages a number of theological movements including liberation theology Radical Orthodoxy feminism and postcolonialism.