INTRODUCTION
I have written a book in praise of the splendid chaos of life， the chaos
that saves us from the fate of clones and robots and opens our way to
incredible futures. Chaos is important. Too often the word is used in
a negative sense， as if chaos were something which should not exist.
But chaos is the power and wisdom and freedom of God in our
midst. We need it.
By the word \"chaos\" I mean all those random， haphazard
happenings， the unpredictable situations in life， the random chances，
the rotten luck， the fortuitous events， the uncertainties， coincidences
and confusion， the unforeseeable and the uncontrollable. They are
the very stuff-of-life that complement the routine expectations of law
and order. When chaos occurs people expend their energy in desper-
ate attempts at restoring order. Even Church and state do it. We
want to have things in control. This at least is a partial mistake. Out
of the chaos comes something new and creative， something not
planned at all that order and routine could never have delivered. If
we are trapped in order， if we have imposed order on ourselves--and
therefore inevitably on others--we have choked off life and growth.
COntrol we may have， and a false security for a time， but change will
find us out. Chaos will not be denied.
Chaos offers the possibility of a choice. It is an expression of the
world s freedom-to，be. It should be celebrated， reveled in， and em-
braced. Our energy should be directed toward discovering the new
creative possibility that might emerge from it if we choose well.
Chaos， then， is something positive. It is not evil， such as the
moral evil of sin. Evil is opposed to order and destroys it. Chaos
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