We need God's substituting Himself into our frail, contingent world of judged living. (firstthings.com)
Maybe God wanted a causally contingent world, and temporality is a necessary feature of causal contingency. (religion-online.org)
In this effort for redemption, the person's dignity, extended to both body and soul, gives him the singular power among the contingent world to be an ascetic being, with the ability to say no, to protest, or to break away. (faith.org.uk)