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This addition to our popular Guides for the Perplexed series tackles a subject that is enjoying renewed debate: Christianity, along with Judaism and Islam, claims that the universe is not a brute fact. It is ‘created’. But what do we mean by ‘creation’? Do we mean that the universe is ‘designed’? Is it the product of an evolutionary process? How are creatures related to God, and does God act...

have seen, however, for Augustine the layers of meaning in scripture are not arbitrary and they are not the result of the stretched use of words. Rather, the layers of meaning arise because things themselves are signs. It is not that words are symbolic and potentially bear arbitrary multiple meanings that need to be controlled; it is the creatures to which words refer that bear meaning. This means that there are layers of meaning in scripture not because we arbitrarily multiply the meanings of words
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