Because both personality types are willed by God, the human being must attempt the seemingly impossible—to be part of both communities, the utilitarian and the covenantal. Thus, God bids the human being to live in a dialectical fashion, oscillating between creative, victory-bent man and humble, submissive man. A person cannot throw off either part of his or her personality. “In every one of us abide the two personae.” And here is the rub: the need for oscillation means that the man of faith has no single home. He is a wanderer, striking roots in one community, only to then uproot himself and
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