“There is no abiding difference within the one gift of both creation and deification; there is only grace all the way down and nature all the way up, and “pure nature” – like pure potency or pure nothingness – is a remainder concept of the most vacuous kind: the name of something that in itself could never be anything at all. Creation, incarnation, salvation, deification: in God, these are one gracious act, one absolute divine vocation to the creature to become what he has called it to become.26.”
