Formulation of the Claim
The world is recreated at every moment.
Explanation
Arkoun presents this conception as a religious formulation of causality, in which events are not understood as the result of a closed, deterministic chain of causes, but rather as linked to the renewal of creation. In this framework, the world is not permanently fixed in structure, but rests on a continuous resumption of existence.
This meaning helps shift attention from interpreting events as mechanical effects to understanding them within a theological horizon that sees creation as renewed. For that reason, the phrase is tied more to the question of the world’s relation to divine power than to any natural description of the world.
Its Place in the Book’s Argument
This atom appears within Arkoun’s broader effort to deconstruct conceptions that confine religious interpretation within rigid molds, as he shows how some doctrinal concepts are formulated in a way that explains occurrence and causality. It is close to theses that discuss the relationship between religious knowledge and the concepts of creation, causation, and time.
Limits of the Claim
The phrase should not be loaded with more philosophical or theological detail than it can bear; here it establishes only a general meaning of the renewal of creation, not a complete theoretical framework in the metaphysics of the world.