Aristotle said that humans are a ‘political animal’ in that they are social creatures and want to order their civic lives for some good end. The Bible has an analogous thought, except that instead of ‘political animal’ we have the ‘image of God’, which is the human vocation for ref lecting God’s sovereign rule over creation, and the good end for which we aim, and towards which we orientate ourselves, is the ‘new heaven and new earth’.
