13. However, man is not God. Although he and he alone is the image of God, he is still only the image of God. Although man is the crown of God’s creation, he in still only the crown of creation, a part of creation, a creature. And man shares his creatureliness with the rest of creation. Man’s fall from grace as the crown of creation therefore drags down with him the rest of creation too, and his principial redemption from sin also involves the principial redemption of the rest of creation too. So if we ignore the salvation of the whole cosmos we thereby ignore the salvation of the whole man as the crown thereof.
