is usually that between an original and a copy, between the real and the merely apparent …: for a Christian,* between the eternal and the temporal, or the perfect and the partially spoiled. The essential attitude of Platonism is aspiration or longing.… In Christianity, however, the human soul is not the seeker but the sought: it is God who seeks, who descends from the other world to find and heal Man; the parable about the Good Shepherd looking for and finding the lost sheep sums it up” (Studies