Man is rotten with perfection.

Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated.

The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.

Man is rotten with perfection.

Stories are equipment for living.

Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality.

Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.