Speaker 1
We will do something new, but what is going to be helpful in you, and what is going to be a mere affectation of novelty, the same thing in another way, which breaks with things as we have always broken with things, but does not enter into anything. And it's precisely at that point that we understand that the order of God in creation is always an order to an end. It's an order that is directed with a purpose. And discerning it is the key to discerning constructive novelty or constructive newness. We don't want to use the word novelty for that, which is really new. From the beginning, we may say Adam and Eve are set up to go somewhere, and the world is set up to go somewhere. They set up to learn. They set up to master the world in some sense by their understanding, by their administration, by how they do. There is a goal in all this that God has in view. We know it as the taking of man could into God as we see it in Christ. How do the ways in which we innovate of what we have done reflect the moving forward of the created order to its own problem? That is always, it seems to be the key thing. Sometimes we face decisions where we have to say, should we change our understanding of our moral obligation and this, that or the other respect? Should we think new about this? When we do that, what we're asking ourselves is, can we find the word in which the moral order that we have always known is pointing forward and shedding light on new situations, which are opening up before us. The novelty comes at a point wherein, rather than in the moral order itself, which God has made.