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Divine Scheme of Things
Dorothy L. Sayer in Dorothy L. Sayer: A Rage for Life.
Divine Scheme of Things
Dorothy L. Sayer in Dorothy L. Sayer: A Rage for Life.
The divine "scheme of things," as Christianity understands it, is at once extremely elastic and extremely rigid. It is elastic, in that it includes a large measure of liberty for the creature; it is rigid in that it includes the proviso that, however created beings choose to behave, they must accept responsibility of their own actions and endure the consequences.
