persons at creation) and eschatological humanity (i.e., humanity’s end or goal) should continually inform our understanding of humanity at every step, each can become abstract concepts if left isolated from humanity as we actually experience it. “It is well to remember … that we are not dealing with an abstract idea of man, but with actual man. Reflection that thinks it can ignore the darker aspects of man’s nature is occupied with an abstraction and will never acquire the right view of the actual