Calvin said somewhere that each of us is an actor on the stage and God is the audience. That metaphor has always interested me, because it makes us artists of our own behavior, and the reaction of God to us might be aesthetic rather than morally judgmental.
How well do we understand our roles? With how much assurance do we perform? I like Calvin's image, because it suggests that God might actually enjoy us.
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
The metaphor occurs frequently in Calvin, and later in Barth, both of whom liked to say that the world is the theatre of God's glory.
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