the Flood or the call of Abram. It will also need to explain God’s activity up to and including the eschaton. God’s ultimate purpose of getting glory to Himself would seem to entail a goal to His activity. This goal is that which unifies His activity or becomes the fundamental rationale for what He does in glorifying Himself. The most primitive purpose of God is His activity to glorify Himself, but that purpose should be connected to some less remote, penultimate