the divine love in Jesus Christ. The scale for assessing the worth of one’s country does not lie in some innate national spirit or genius, as in the spurious claims of romantic nationalism, but in that human creativity and partial grasp of truth which remains open to all humanity even after its fall into sin and rebellious history. Each culture and country may express that creativity and grasp of truth in its own distinctive ways, but no mere country is endowed with a monopoly of wisdom or possesses