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A study of history
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Author: Toynbee Arnold
Year: n.a.
In logic, if God's universe is perfect, there cannot be a devil outside it, while if the Devil exists, the perfection which he comes to spoil must have been incomplete already through the very fact of his existence. This logical contradiction, which cannot be logically resolved, is intuitively transcended in the imagery of the poet and prophet, who give glory to an omnipotent God, yet take it for granted that He is subject to crucial limitations.
(Somervell's abridgement, 1.63)
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