1. First among these was an emerging clarity on the radical difference between God and the world. The careful articulation of this radical difference has since that time become a fundamental fixture in Christian theology. A modern theologian continues to speak of this “Christian distinction” as the lynchpin of Christian theology.12 But at that time, the framing of this distinction was still relatively new. Aristotle had taught that the whole universe was “unbegotten,” and had always existed.13 Plato