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Actuality as such, we may say, is self-creative response to other self-creativity, which as thus responded to is also creative of others, or other-creative. Relatively, then, to the antecedent self-creativity to which its self-creativity responds, any actuality is consummative and as such, redemptive, just as relatively to the subsequent self-creativity of which it is other-creative, any actuality is creative and, as such, emancipative. But, then, the uniqueness or unsurpassability of God as the Creator, and hence the Emancipator, on the one hand, and the Consummator, and hence the Redeemer, on the other, lies in the universal scope – -- the "modal all-inclusiveness" (Hartshome) – -- of God's self-creative response to all other self-creativity, and all other self-creativity's response to God's self-creativity. Although we both create and consummate, emancipate and redeem, we do so always in a radically fragmentary, non-all-inclusive way with respect to some things only. By an infinite qualitative difference, God both creates and consummates, emancipates and redeems, all things in a radically all-inclusive, nonfragmentary way.

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