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                                                                                   On Bultmann's Treatment of God as Creator

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Among the other unfortunate implications of this assumption is that it tends to result in just that confusion of the mystery of God for man with the enigmatic or uninteligible unintelligible against which Bultmann himself elsewhere rightly protests. That is to say, it gives rise to the problem of evil in its classicat classical insolvable form, which faith "nevertheless" affirms to be somehow solved.

Wiki MarkupI also seem to recall Bultmann's having taken issue with my statement that "each creature is what it is only by partly \ [_sic_\!\] reflecting or expressing in its being God's free decisions" (_RG_: 180). He apparently wanted to say, instead, that every creature is what it is _wholly_ by virtue of the free decision of God.

25 October 1970