no guru, no Muhammad or Gandhi. He is ‘God with us’. That is the essential claim on which Christianity is built. It is a claim that cannot be abandoned without abandoning the faith in its entirety. The other great name accorded to the child of promise here is Jesus (21). That word, too, has a meaning: ‘Yahweh saves.’ ‘God to the rescue’, if you like. To be sure, it was a common name. It goes back to the frequent rescue of his people by God in the Old Testament days, perhaps most notably through a