Sublime

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 demonstrate that, appearances to the contrary (especially in the cultural and philosophical milieu of the early church), the material world itself is plastic – by extension just as plastic to divine influence, one might hope, as human lives.

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The life-defining norms to which we hold ourselves (God) can exist only by being embodied in our practices as individual social actors (Christ), who can live on and be recognized for who we are only through the institutional relations that we share (the Holy Spirit).

Christ is by nature the divine Son who images the Father; human beings by the grace of the Holy Spirit become sons in the image of the divine image and thereby of the Father.

What method would you use to define who a person is?

This is the gospel,

should be proclaimed as able to save all who come to him.

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