Shame implies
the peculiarly human concern with self - perfection, guilt the sense of personal responsibility, whereas awe recognizes powers not under human control and beyond human comprehension, before which we feel shamefully small.
«20 God could not become a man without thereby abandoning his divinity (as in Altizer's Sabellianism), but he becomes fully
human in intimately incorporating into his own being
peculiarly human experiences and sensitivities, thus accepting an inexhaustible
concern for
human purposes, achievements, and failures.