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Too often the doctrine of creation has been made to serve limited or pointless ends, like the well-worn arguments between science and faith over the question of human and cosmic origins. Given this history, some might be tempted to ignore the theology of creation, thinking it has nothing new or substantive to say. They would be wrong. In this stimulating volume, Ian A. McFarland shows that at...

does not define God as a particular kind of thing. Rather than limiting God, the divine nature is the expression of God’s freedom as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. While (as argued above) it is a corollary of this freedom that God cannot cease to be God, the fact that God, in God’s transcendence, is (to cite again the expression of Nicholas of Cusa) “not other” than creatures means that God can also be other than God without thereby ceasing to be God. That is the meaning of the incarnation: the Word,
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