the Bible depicts God as ensconced within our history as one whose relationship with humans plays out along the same temporal lines as relationships between human persons—loving and merciful at one moment (Ex. 3:7–9), grieved and angry at another (Ex. 32:9–10; Ezek. 16:42–43), turning away from man and returning to man in mercy and reconciliation (Ex. 32:14; Ps. 80:19; Mal. 3:7). These are the components that make personal relationships truly personal, are they not? From the viewpoint of theistic mutualism, such dynamic reciprocity and mutuality seem to call for an overhaul of the
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