systems of matter and life—and it is out of these open systems that the world we know exists.22 This means, not least, that all open systems point beyond themselves to the sphere of what they can be, and must be read theologically as real, or true, symbols of that future in which they are in God and God is in them, when they will participate unhindered in God’s indwelling fullness of possibility without being destroyed by it, and will become that for which God has destined them. The goal of God’s