GOD IN THE NITTY-GRITTY OF LIFE
According to Michael Valpy of Globe and Mail, at the core of Gregory Baum’s theological convictions "lay the writings of the early-20th-century French philosopher Maurice Blondel. They led to what may have been his most important book, Man Becoming: God in Secular Language, assessing positively Blondel's acknowledgment of God's redemptive presence in human history.
God, in other words, existed in the nitty-gritty of life - an "insider God," as Toronto's Regis College academic Mary Jo Leddy explained Dr. Baum's view. You fall in love?
That's God at work.
God was on the ground with grace - the benevolence shown by God toward the human race, the spontaneous gift from God to people, "generous, free and totally unexpected and undeserved."