openness to God is brought about by grace, and grace springs from the suffering of God in his faithfulness to isolated man. The opening of man’s closed society for openness towards man’s neighbour and towards the world can be conceived analogously. Closed systems bar themselves against suffering and self-transformation. They grow rigid and condemn themselves to death. The opening of closed systems and the breaking down of their isolation and immunization will have to come about through the acceptance
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