Our bones are the bones of the old red stars; and our cherished egos are constructed and reconstructed daily by history and culture and fashion and, above all and within all, by time. God created, we believe, ex nihilo and — as post-Einsteinian physics has stressed — time, like space, is intrinsic to the order of the cosmos. There was no time before the creation; time came into existence with space, they are inextricably connected and there is no escape, no loophole, no separation, no detachment. There is no experience outside the creativity of God.
— Sara Maitland, A Big-Enough God