Abstract

The paper surveys a number of approaches to the idea that the world represents God, drawing on the work of Aquinas, Alston, and Teilhard de Chardin. After noting some of the difficulties which these accounts may pose, a further model is advanced for consideration. The paper argues for the view that the world represents God not so much by resembling God, but rather by pointing towards the divine reality as the pre-requisite of its completion in aesthetic and other terms.