has been given to us through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. Creation and redemption name the great drama in which we become participants, performers, in God’s care of all that is. In more formal theological terms this means that the distinction between church and world is more fundamental than the distinction between nature and grace. Elsewhere I have argued that an account of nature is unavoidable for Christian theology if we are to rightly acknowledge that God graciously desires that
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