Chris’s Reviews > God in Creation: A New Theology of Creation and the Spirit of God > Status Update

The peace of the sabbath can be viewed as the Jewish "doctrine of justification." Anyone who looks at Israel on the sabbath cannot reproach her with a "righteousness of works."

It contradicts belief in creation of we define the human being's essential quality, and what corresponds to God in him [sic], by subtracting the animal and then regarding what is left as something on its own.

Lovely, lucid treatment throughout the latter part of this chapter of what if anything it could mean to lose or impair the image of God. Best I've seen on the subject.

Re Lk 20:36: The angels are both finite and immortal.

The human being is certainly the living thing with the highest development known to us. But the "crown of creation" is God's sabbath.

Qualitative infinity v quantitative endlessness.

We cannot talk about a "contrast" in the relationship between heaven and earth; we can only speak of a complementation. We cannot think of the one as over against or superior to the other; we can only talk about the fellowship and community of God's created beings.

The analogy in which God's creatures "correspond" to him and give him delight, only comes into being when God blesses what he has created.

The crown of creation is not the human being; it is the sabbath.