At First Things Father Richard John Neuhaus writes a wonderful summation about belief in the transcendent God and the suppression thereof.
Scroll down to just short of the halfway point. It's under the subheading "The Denial of the Transcendent"
It would, I think, be fair to say that all the criticisms expressed in The Peasant—and it is a very critical book—can be summed up in one comprehensive criticism: namely, the denial or suppression of the transcendent—of life understood as premised upon what Maritain calls "the intuition of being" and the ordering of humanity to the Being who is God. Of all religions and philosophies, he writes, Catholicism "is most steadfast in recognizing and affirming the reality—irreducibly, splendidly, generously in itself—of the beings whom the Creator has made, and the transcendence of this Other, who is the Truth in person and Being itself subsisting by itself, in whom we live and move and have our being, the living God by whose strength we live, and who loves us and whom we love." Repeatedly, he returns to the biblical truth that "God is love." This he posits against those who, in his judgment, are suggesting that God is history, or God is evolutionary development, or God is cosmic fulfillment, or God is worldly effectiveness, or God is political justice, or God is psychological well–being.Posted by Bob at February 13, 2003 10:39 PM