Introduction To Christianity - pg. 99

By deciding in favor of the God of the philosophers
and logically declaring this God to be the God who
speaks to man and to whom one can pray, the Christian
faith gave a completely new significance to this
God of the philosophers, removing him from the
purely academic realm and thus profoundly transforming him.
This God who had previously existed as something
neutral, as the highest, culminating concept; this God
who had been understood as pure Being or pure thought,
circling round for ever closed in upon itself without reaching
over to man and his little world; this God of the philosophers,
whose pure eternity and unchangeability had excluded any
relation with the changeable and transitory, now appeared
to the eye of faith as the God of men, who is not only
thought of all thoughts, the eternal mathematics of the universe,
but also agape, the power of creative love.