as necessarily different from God’s states: Still there are points of contact. Like the creation, man’s games are an expression of freedom and not of caprice, for playing relates to the joy of the creator with his creation and the pleasure of the player with his game. Like creation, games combine sincerity and mirth, suspense and relaxation. (TP, p. 18.) Given Moltmann’s play on the word bahrah in this essay, one could as easily substitute the word ‘work’ for play and game in this quote and find