ABSTRACT
Swan regards the biblical witness to the One who is the eternal Word of God, as that which indicates that He is eternal Wisdom and eternal Light. Word and Wisdom and Light coinhere in the existence of the Triune God. Swan discusses the nature of light, and notes the necessity of light for the intelligible discernment of all other levels of creation. There is also a correspondence between the status of light and the Person and act of Christ, the Word and Wisdom and radiance of God's Light, and therefore Light of Light. Man is the soul of his body and the body of his soul. In that unity he is created as a rational creature whose orientation is to God in whom alone he lives, moves and has his being. This is a matter of the grace of God in Christ, and this is the direction and the posture of true knowledge.
