This in turn means taking the creation’s contingency seriously, giving due recognition to the unpredictable, to that which does not simply flow out of the past but which is nonetheless consistent and fruitful, to the new developments that God is constantly bringing forth from his world. Those working at the borderlands of contemporary science and theology have not been slow to engage with such ideas, giving rise to various proposals for a metaphysics of “contingent order.”26 Whatever weight we give