Son, we have been accepted as free sons of the Father. As a result of biblical revelation, however, the “numinous” dimension in man’s relationship with the universe is finally “clarified”, that is, shown to speak of Christ, and the world is “secularized” (in a correct sense) and shown to be God’s “other”, God’s partner. Thus the world’s relation to the Paternal (and trinitarian) Origin is infinitely heightened: its journey through meaning and time is illuminated by having a beginning and an end,
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