Sublime

Christ clarifies and specifies the nature, aim, and trustworthiness of all God’s dealings with us because Christ is where those dealings with us come to ultimate fruition.

Human beings must not only be changeable but susceptible to radical transformation beyond the limits of their own – or any – created nature.

Lost through sin, the gifts of Word and Spirit that made humans the image of God at their creation would need to be restored to humanity by Christ in some new way that improves upon the original situation that permitted their loss.

If Christ is the key to understanding what humanity received at creation, the Word was present then, moreover, through the power of the Spirit.

If God saves by taking the radical step of uniting the whole of human nature to itself, we can be sure that God is responsible for the created goodness of our world through quite direct involvement with every aspect of it.2

humans still stand out by their failure to be clearly limited by a particular nature as other creatures are.

character of human lives as they are made over in him will be ultimately comprehensible according to a divine image that cannot itself be comprehended.

divinity. God must attach us, in all our frailty and finitude, to God.

This lack of human uniformity and fixity, though it distinguishes us from God, need not be lamented.