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Christ the Heart of Creation QUOTES

Christ the Heart of Creation QUOTES

1 " The Creator is that which activates a potentially unlimited set of modes in which finite agency is exercised, but is also simply what eternally is. "

― Rowan Williams , Christ the Heart of Creation

2 " Revelation is something communicated from infinite agency or reality to the finite mind. But (in Farrer’s picture) this is not a matter of God just interrupting the process of the world to ‘insert’ something alien into the gap; it happens as a result of what happens in the world of finite agents or substances, as these finite realities are modified in their relations to one another, drawn into newly meaningful shapes. "

― Rowan Williams , Christ the Heart of Creation

3 " God and the world are not two things to be added together. Neither are they two things that are ‘really’ one thing. They exist in an asymmetrical relation in which one depends wholly on the other, yet is fully itself, made to be and to act according to its own logic and structure. "

― Rowan Williams , Christ the Heart of Creation

4 " In the light of this clarification of the finite/infinite distinction, we can see that ‘revelatory’ action, including whatever events allow us a closer conscious share in infinite agency (in the love of the Trinity, to use the conventional theological phrasing), will be, not an interruption of the finite sequence, but a particular configuration of finite agency such that it communicates more than its own immanent content. "

― Rowan Williams , Christ the Heart of Creation

5 " If people take seriously doctrines such as the divinity of Christ, it is not primarily because they can treat them as if they were tidy conclusions to an argument, deductions from readily available evidence, but because – however obscurely they are grasped, however challenging the detail – they see that the language of doctrine holds together a set of intractably complex questions in a way that offers a coherent context for human living. "

― Rowan Williams , Christ the Heart of Creation

6 " as we have seen – we conceive God as infinite personal will and intelligence, as the exercise of infinite resource fully and eternally present in every moment of its action, there exists in creation the possibility of relation between finite and infinite at a level other than that of universal causal activation. Personal relatedness between divine and human will unites divine life with the highest of the levels of finite agency; and this relation transformingly illuminates how human intelligence and love are rooted in infinite agency. "

― Rowan Williams , Christ the Heart of Creation

7 " To use infinite agency to close a gap is to rob it of its infinite character. "

― Rowan Williams , Christ the Heart of Creation