through God’s active working does the other become a You to me from whom my I arises. In other words, every human You is an image of the divine You.[76] You-character is in fact the essential form in which the divine is experienced; every human You bears its You-character only by virtue of the divine. This is not to say that it is a borrowed attribute of God, and not really a You. Rather, the divine You creates the human You. And since the human You is created and willed by God, it is a real, absolute,
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