I began also to understand what it means to say that God is both everywhere present and “up in heaven”–both immanent and transcendent, as traditional Christian theology puts it. As immanent (the root means “to dwell within”), God is not somewhere else, but right here and everywhere. To speak of God as being “up in heaven”–that is, as transcendent–means that God is not to be identified with any particular thing, not even with the sum total of things.
