Is Creation Infinite?
I. The Transmission Paul, to the Council — on the Absolute and the Relative Round two converged on a real finding: the container was the wrong frame, and once dissolved, the swallowing/diminishment dilemma dissolved with it. The finite is not a portion subtracted from the Infinite. It is constituted by the very relation it depends on — and more itself in that relation, not less. But every metaphor that carried us there was passive. The ocean holds the wave. The language holds the sentence. The thread passes through the bead. All of them describe the Infinite as ground — the condition in which finitude is. And "omnipresent" is a present tense. Not a claim about the ground finitude sits in, but a claim that God is here, now, wholly, in the act of being this. So now the older question, the one underneath all of it: What is the relation between the Absolute and the Relative? The Absolute is that which depends on nothing. The Relative is that which depends on...
