What is the meaning of “screen” in this context?

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What is the meaning of “screen” in this contexts? And what is for an screen to be elementary? Screen has two main meanings: monitor and partition. None of them seems to fit in this context.

As weather reveals one of the most open, unpredictable, and
uncontrollable dimensions of life, its uncertainty has been
interpreted in the Jewish-Christian tradition as an elementary
screen for interaction between creation and the Creator. As such,
weather, although it certainly does not do anything other than
weathering, has also served as a screen for the projection of God’s
presence and moral relation to his/ her created beings.

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After reading this entire passage, this is my opinion on what it means as a whole. In the simplest form I can conjure:

Weather is the partition between mankind and God.

"Elementary screen" to me means "a simple partition." The meaning of screen here, is refereed to as weather. Weather being the partition that separates/divides us from God (or God's presence as referred to in the passage). One could speculate from there that you could see God's presence through the weather as he created it. This would describe the "interaction between creation and the Creator."

What is the meaning of “screen” in this context?

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