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Throwback Thursday: Creation is Political

New Polity

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Naming, building, and the social construction of language

Adam's creativity and participation in God's reason enables him to build a new world as a gift back to God. This world is socially constructed through language and naming. Each generation adds to the world they live in, raising walls and giving new names to things. This process is akin to the determination of human law based on natural law, such as deciding what color to paint a door in the temple they are building.

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