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God is rightly conceived as creating the world freely in that God effects the transition from the more abstract, indeterminate possibility of some world or other to the more concrete, determinate possibility of just this particular world or that. This implies that there must be contingency both in God and in the world, since God's creative act could have been otherwise than it in fact is, and so, too, could the world whose more determinate possibility God creates.

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