Godhead. Deliverance would then be mystical dissolution. That is why we find side by side with the image of God as the ‘broad place’ the metaphor of God as ‘the safe stronghold’, as the place enclosed by God, protected, unassailable: ‘The Lord of Hosts is with us, the God of Jacob is our refuge’ (Psalm 46). God is a spacious God, an inviting, ceding, delivering and finally indwellable God—not just supreme substance, not merely absolute subject, but also the living-space
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