of creation is an unrepeatable, once-for-all act which results in a reality distinct from God, having been summoned forth from nothing; it begins in time and ends in it; the finished nature of this act of the creation of the creature means that its being includes all its “temporal developments, extensions and relationships … in all the individual forms of the creaturely world and in all the historical manifestations and modifications of its existence.”14 Providence is thus an act of God presupposed
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