cosmos. He is not actually alone. He is in the cosmos. He alone sheds light on the cosmos. As he is light, the cosmos is also light. As God’s covenant with him is disclosed, the cosmos is shown to be embraced by the same covenant. Thus we lose nothing and gain everything if we resolutely refuse to make the doctrine of the creature a doctrine of the universe, a cosmology. This is quite unnecessary. For precisely in its concentrated form as a doctrine of man—and quite apart from speculations about