Showing posts with label Doug. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Doug. Show all posts

Friday, June 20, 2008

Baker: Trinitarian community

The fulfilment of God's image is when we enter into the Trinitarian indwelling (keep the greatest commandment) and reproduce it among ourselves (keep the second, which is like the first). this is our eternal purpose; to do this is life...

God, having set Himself the task of making a creature that dwells in a community resembling the community of the Trinity, will not rest until He has accomplished all he has said.

Baker, p.93

Monday, June 09, 2008

Degree of Image

Humanity is made both to represent God, to stand in his place, and also to resemble him to such a degree that we might be mistaken for him.

Baker, Covenant and Community, p68-69

Monday, May 19, 2008

Baker: what is man?

"What is man? What am I? Why would the creator of the universe care about us, about me?"

David's question, so famously asked in Psalm 8, has been ringing in every human soul ever since we hid in the bushes from the sound of God's approach. We may have the option of ignoring the question's answer, but we do not have the ability not to ask it.

Doug P Baker, Covenant and Community, p1.