Grenz: Humanity, Community & Reconciliation

“Christian anthropology sets forth the glorious truth that humans are created in the divine image, a concept best understood in a corporate or community sense.  Although created for community, because of the fall humans are estranged from themselves, from each other, from their environment, and –most tragically of all – from God.  Yet the Christian story does not end on the negative note.  Humans are also the objects of God’s reconciling work….God is at work effecting our reconciliation and thereby completing the divine goal of creation, the establishment of the eschatological community.”

–Stanley J. Grenz, Theology for the Community of God, 244.