hand, that all is not well between tree and Church. A world from which God is exiled is a world where nothing is sacred. The consequences of such an absence cannot help but be disastrous. The two-storey universe has many far more subtle effects. The very character of our relationship with God in such a universe is reduced to the moral or forensic level. God is not with us; He is absent from us. Our life is not united to His life; it is a life understood to be as secularized and independent as the