this question is not merely valid; it is actually necessary. Can a person experience ‘himself’ in his relationship to God as person if God is certainly supposed to mean everything to him, but if he is not supposed to mean anything to God? In faith the person experiences God in God’s relationship to him, and himself in his relationship to God. If he experiences God in this, then he also thereby experiences the way God has ‘experienced’—and still ‘experiences’—him. If one were only to relate the experience