might live in fellowship with and thus to the glory of the Living God, both as those who bear God’s likeness and as those who carry out God’s purposes on earth. Even before the fall, we are told, God’s purpose was to redeem the fallen so as to reshape their misshapen vision of God and thus to restore them into the fellowship from which they fell in their rebellion. God has brought this about, we are told, by himself coming among us in the person of his Son, who at one point in our human history effected