On page 321 Kelsey raises the threat of violence that occurs when our practices are out of step with a vision of our fellow humans and ourselves as creatures. In this sense I wonder if a criticism of violence is possible. Violence takes on fresh and everyday forms as well as apocalyptic and spectacular forms. Is Kelsey able to explain everyday violence, the violence that emerges and is sustained in everyday life? Is there a sense that violence is in harmony with the fragility and complexity of creation, or simply a side effect of it? Theological immunity is granted to the everyday to the extent that it must, from the beginning, be considered as good as the immediate context created by