On page 321, Kelsey discusses the threat of violence that arises when our practices are out of step with a vision of other creatures and of ourselves precisely as creatures . With this in mind, I wonder about the possibility of a critique of violence. Violence takes cool, everyday forms in addition to apocalyptic and spectacular forms. Is Kelsey capable of accounting for everyday violence, the violence that emerges and persists within everyday life? Is there a sense that violence is in harmony with the fragility and complexity of creation, or simply as a side effect of it? Is theological immunity granted to everyday life to the extent that it must, from the outset, be considered good as a close context created by