we have to try to manage as best we can by the human will exerted through technology. For the Christian Great Tradition, the world is “creation called out of nothing by Christ, on its way to its fulfillment in the New Heavens and New Earth.”40 Both versions of the nature of history cannot be correct, and no “dialectical” concept of history will suffice to reconcile them. The Great Tradition was a three-legged stool made up of spiritual exegesis,
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