obliged to concentrate on it for its own sake. Thus while on the one hand we cannot investigate the contingent world scientifically out of its own contingent processes without, as it were, a methodological turning away from knowledge of God, on the other hand, we cannot adequately apprehend the radical nature of contingence except from the perspective of the Creator and his free act of creation. Hence the point of the theological statement: nihil constat de contingentia nisi ex revelatione. The mystery