grounded upon natural science, natural science rests for one of its most basic concepts upon Christian theology. 3) The idea of the freedom of the universe, that is, its contingent freedom. Behind this lies a powerful conception of the freedom of God, which stems from the deep background of the Church in Judaic thought, but which Christian theologians energetically developed in the course of their struggle with Greek thought, in order to divorce theology from cosmology. As the Creator of the whole
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