ABSTRACT
This chapter considers logic of coinherence can be discovered and defended within the broader framework that Reinhold Niebuhr describes. A human being is contingent, dependent, vulnerable, and irreducibly other. Contingency refers to the fact that one did not and does not have to be. Who human creatures are and how they are to take themselves to be as such already stands within the reality of fellow humanity. Sinners are brothers and sisters for whom Christ died. On the basis of this description, Christians' love paradigmatically corresponds to the God "who shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us While we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son". Human desire for the good finds a term in reverent and gracious regard for another human creature recognized and welcomed as one's fellow. The human creature is also destined for fellowship or friendship with God.
