individuality, 6 Theologians are also recognizing a need to “recover” the divinity of Jesus Christ in such a way that the rediscovered humanity is not diminished’.7 Aquinas’ account of the life of Jesus can be useful both in recovering Christ’s divinity and in affirming his unique human character. Thomas divides his treatment of what ‘the Incarnate Son of God did or suffered in the human nature united to him’ into four parts: (1) his coming into the world (qq. 27–39), (2) his life in the world (qq.