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The role of God as Creator-Emancipator, I have said, is to make all things really possible, in fact as well as in principle, by ever and again establishing the optimal limits of creaturely freedom. The role of God as Consummator-Redeemer, then, is to make all things really real and abidingly significant by ever and again incorporating them into God's own everlasting life. This understanding presupposes that freedom, in the sense of making fully determinate actuality what was theretofore only more or less indeterminate possibility, is a strictly transcendental concept. Thus anything concretely real, being as such self-created as well as created by others, makes itself determinate actuality and thus exercises freedom in just this sense. It is because every creature exercises such freedom in creating itself that God's role as Creator-Emancipator is not to make creatures fully actual, but only to make them really possible, in principle and also in fact.

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