“I admit that this language of relations has its drawbacks. But you seem to suppose that, just because we cannot conceive of an act which combines freedom of choice with freedom from external solicitation, we cannot allow that God’s act of creation is of this kind. You are dragging God down to your own level.

“I do not. Surely you know that Abelard was condemned for saying that God can do only what in fact he does and that the Vatican Council condemned Guenther for teaching the necessity of creation.