The Church
has two fundamental doctrines with regard to the creation. The first is
that God created the universe out of non-being and not from allegedly
pre-existing ideas. The second is that God governs, maintains and
provides for the creation through His uncreated energy and not by means
of created laws.
The energy of God is single, but it is differentiated into many energies according to its results,
namely: existence-bestowing, life-giving, wisdom-imparting or
glorifying, just as there is the creative, sustaining, providential and
glorifying energy of God. The entire creation participates to varying
extents in God’s energy. At this point, when mentioning the energy of
God in creation, we shall refer to the creative energy of God but not to
His glorifying energy, in which the angels and saints share, as we
shall see later.
“All things participate in the creative energy of God, but not in His glorifying energy.”
