This experience of God is bound up with experiences of exodus and exile because it is aligned towards a new future through promise and hope. Anyone who follows this divine promise, and starts out afresh with such a hope, always leaves behind a past that will never return and to which he will never come back, and seeks a future that has never yet been.
Nature and history are not two different spheres of reality. . . . they are two different aspects of the one, single reality in which human beings exist and in which they participate.
— Jurgen Moltmann, Science and Wisdom by Jurgen Moltmann, Margaret Kohl, translator