arose in Israel. This history and its revelation lead from promise to fulfillment rather than from lower stages of being to higher. At every point the world reflects its marvelous contingency—even to the point of apparent randomness. Far from the Enlightenment picture, post-Einsteinian science has become more aware of the dynamic natural processes that exhibit paradox and apparent chaos. Discerning something more like a complex organism involved in constant change than a cosmic machine running smoothly