Oden provides a nice summary of scholastic teaching on the subject (here abridged),
God is:-
- naturally present in every aspect of the natural order (Ps 8:3)
- actively present in every event of history as provident guide of human affairs (Ps 48:7)
- attentively present to those who call upon his name (Matt 18:19-20, Acts 17:27)
- judicially present in moral awareness, through conscience (Ps 48:1-2)
- bodily present in the incarnation of his Son (John 1:14, Col 2:9)
- sacramentally present through the means of grace in the church (Eph 2:12, John 6:56)
- sacredly present in special places where God chooses to meet us (Gen 28:16, 23:18)
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