Graced nature

Cunningham again, arguing that a creation made by a loving Creator cannot be pure nature: “Traditionally, God’s long-term ‘involvement’ with an care for the world has been emphasized through the theological category of grace .  In creating the world, God wills into existence something radically other-than-God; but the world’s ‘otherness’ is not something that cuts it off from God.  There is thus no ‘pure nature’; nature is always graced.  And it is graced not just because it was created by God long ago, but because God is always actively redeeming and sustaining it.”