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I've long sensed that when Bultmann speaks of God as "the Creator," he means more than I do when I use the same phrase. He means not only -- in my terms -- the "primal source" of all things, and so God "the Creator-Emancipator," but also the "final end" of everything, and so God "the Consummator-Redeemer." For him, then, "the Creator" may be said to be constitutive both of the being and of the new being of all creatures as well as Godself.

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