social processes that mark our existence. The conviction of both traditions has been that God works in and through them. They have resisted denying their reality or arguing that we utterly transcend them; and, with equally good reason, they have argued that human life—because God is its creator—amounts to more than the sum total of its parts. Christianity is an incarnational faith—we believe in a God who takes on human form. We believe in a church led by the Holy Spirit that occupies the historical