Sunday, March 25, 2007

world as word

God's utterance of himself in himself is God the Word, outside himself is this world. This world then is word, expression, news of God. Therefore its end, its purpose, its purport, its meaning, is God and its life or work to name and praise him.

~Hopkins. "Further Notes on the Foundation" Sermons and Devotional Writings. Ed. Christopher Devlin. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1959) p.129

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