In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.
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Keeping our eyes on journey's end is what we need - the place where we see at last the world that is greater than the world, the new creation that cannot be contained in present thought or social order or piety.Rowan D. Williams
So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.
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The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny.
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In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.
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Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.
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St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return.
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