Moralistic, Therapeutic Deism, God's Presence in Community, and the Feminism Position

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God at the Margins
What is "moralistic, therapeutic deism"?
Moralistic, therapeutic deism holds that God lives and desires that people be friendly and just. The purpose of human life is to remain joyful and feel noble within oneself. God is rarely active in individuals' lives, and kind people get to heaven when a crisis arises.
What does the author want to say when explaining, ".... God's presence is not experienced primarily or solely in individual mystical experiences but in community."
According to this author, impoverished people are at the center of Christian living and God's rescuing work, who believes that God is central to the lives of both the marginalized (Galdamez, 22). He hopes that those seeking God can learn from the spirituality of those in poverty rather than perceive poverty as a sign that God is absent because God is a God who can still be found in both unjust conditions and those that work for justice. Because of their fights for fo...