The God of nature is not a mere one-and-manyness. He cannot be defined by his relationships to numbers. For as I mentioned at the end of the previous chapter, his numerical attributes have concrete effects. We do not discover his oneness and manyness in the abstract but as necessary presuppositions of the story into which he has placed us. The reason why we call him one and many is that he has created a unity and complexity in our own experience. We marvel at how everything fits together: how centuries