Pannenberg argues that religion and culture share a common foundation in openness to the world. This capacity for self-transcendence forms the basis for the creation of a shared world among individuals and the creations of culture. Thus Pannenberg suggests that it is not only religion that seeks the fulfillment of humanity in the divine, but all of culture is properly oriented to this task. If he is right in this claim, there can be no ultimate ground for a distinction between religious and secular realty, since the very structure of the human person is directed to fulfillment in relation to
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