possible, if God is “everything”, for the creature nonetheless to be “something” that is not God). But we can say that the sharpness of the paradox is mitigated by the fact that God, in order to be love for us, must first of all be it in himself. In other words, the world maintains its status in the Son, as all the great theologies have always known. This also deepens even more the Old Testament theology of election that gave Israel her identity and self-consciousness. How far we now are from the