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On God's Work

God's work is twofold, consisting in both a creative and a consummative aspect, as explained in Faith and Freedom (where, however, the operative distinction is not between "creative" and "consummative," but rather "emancipative" and "redemptive"). We human beings are given and called -- implicitly, if not also explicitly and decisively -- to participate in this work in both of its aspects, notwithstanding the important difference between them and, correspondingly, between our ways of participating in them.

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