Yet God, who wishes to work with us and who counts on our cooperation, can also bring good out of the evil we have done. \u201cThe Holy Spirit can be said to possess an infinite creativity, proper to the divine mind, which knows how to loosen the knots of human affairs, including the most complex and inscrutable\u201d.<\/span>[48]<\/a>\u00a0Creating a world in need of development, God in some way sought to limit himself in such a way that many of the things we think of as evils, dangers or sources of suffering, are in reality part of the pains of childbirth which he uses to draw us into the act of cooperation with the Creator.<\/span>[49]<\/a>\u00a0God is intimately present to each being, without impinging on the autonomy of his creature, and this gives rise to the rightful autonomy of earthly affairs.<\/span>[50]<\/a>\u00a0His divine presence, which ensures the subsistence and growth of each being, \u201ccontinues the work of creation\u201d.<\/span>[51]<\/a>\u00a0The Spirit of God has filled the universe with possibilities and therefore, from the very heart of things, something new can always emerge: \u201cNature is nothing other than a certain kind of art, namely God\u2019s art, impressed upon things, whereby those things are moved to a determinate end. It is as if a shipbuilder were able to give timbers the wherewithal to move themselves to take the form of a ship\u201d.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Thomas would regard the theory of evolution as evidence of the doctrine of creation, which unrolls (evolvere) the potentialities God placed in it \u201cin the beginning\u201d. \u00a0Nature evolves because God has made it to evolve.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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