the immanent frame. This metaphorical concept — alluding to a “frame” that both boxes in and boxes out, encloses and focuses — is meant to capture the world we now inhabit in our secular age: “this frame constitutes a ‘natural’ order, to be contrasted to a ‘supernatural’ one, an ‘immanent’ world, over against a possible ‘transcendent’ one” (p. 542).1 We now inhabit this self-sufficient immanent order, even if we believe in transcendence.
