The problem with absolute certainty is that it closes one off to
the possibility of new revelation.
Not exact matches
It is only by way
of the
revelation of such
possibilities that the cosmos could ever evolve toward
new kinds
of ordered complexity.
Gerald O'Collins, who certainly agrees with the
new accent, observes that the personalist way
of looking at
revelation as God's self - disclosure does not exclude the
possibility of framing its content simultaneously in the form
of statements
of truth.
New lights have been vouchsafed us — the reality, capable
of definition,
of a Cosmogenesis; the discovery
of a genesis
of the atom,
of the increasingly «molecular» aspect
of living organisms pursued to the infinitesimal, and
of the persistence
of this «molecular» characteristic in the mechanisms
of heredity and evolution rising to the highest organic types; the existence
of a center
of indeterminacy at the very heart
of every element
of Matter... The cumulative effect
of these
revelations has been to open our eyes to a very different and quite otherwise alluring
possibility.
Among t a whole generation
of artists who were grouped in numerous exhibitions under the heading
of «Arte Povera», Fabro is perhaps the one who has most emphatically linked the urgency
of the
new with the expression
of chronological time, fully conscious
of the
possibilities that the ruins
of the past have always provided for artists in an Italy that has never ceased to inspire
new creative perspectives through the
revelation of the treasures
of its culture.