Niebuhr ends, finally, with discernment. “This divine source and center must be discerned by faith because it is enveloped in mystery, though being the basis of meaning. So discerned it yields a frame of meaning in which human freedom is real and valid and not merely tragic or illusory. But it is also recognized that man is constantly tempted to overestimate the degree of his freedom and forget that he is also a creature.”41 When we recognize that we are always embedded in a when, a pressing question dawns from this recognition: When are we? And where is God in this when? Where is the Spirit
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