The Question of Sovereignty and a Quote from Rowan Williams on Creation
In a short while, one of our upcoming episodes will address the question of divine sovereignty asking:
“Assuming, of course, that God exists, how does God interact with her creation?”
“Did God create as a single event, and then take off, leaving her creation to fend for itself?”
“Is God so involved in her creation, that she dictates almost every event such that it conforms to some grand scheme?”
Anyway…these will be interesting questions to explore, particularly because such questions will determine how God’s nature is to be understood and whether or not we could see such a divine being as Good, etc. To get the wheels turning already, I will include a quote from the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams:
“It should be a rather exhilarating thought that the moment of creation is now – that if, by some unthinkable accident, God’s attention slipped, we wouldn’t be here. It means that within every circumstance, every object, every person, God’s action is going on, a sort of white heat at the centre of everything. It means that each one of us is already in a relationship with God before we’ve ever thought about it. It means that every object or person we encounter is in a relationship with God before they’re in a relationship of any kind with us. And if that doesn’t make us approach the world and other people with reverence and amazement, I don’t know what will.”
- Rowan Williams, Tokens of Trust: An Introduction to Christian Belief, Westminster John Knox Press, London, 35.
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