Reflections on Brunner's "Man and Creation"

The beginning of a human relationship with the Creator is to know ourselves as creatures. Humanity is dust—one with the world—yet created in God’s image. Earthiness and divinity in one neat package, multiplied by billions. Weakness and strength; bound to both the physical and the spiritual; fallen yet eternally linked to God. Humanity is the perfect bridge, between heaven and earth, yet fundamentally warped.