particularity in which He is man. Or it will do violence to Him with its attempt to comprehend Him in its categories. This is the cul-de-sac* into which we must not be enticed by the concept “nature.” Christology cannot and must not take as its starting-point a knowledge of man in general. On the contrary (cf. C.D., III, 2, § 43, 2, and passim), a genuine knowledge of man in general, a theological anthropology, and therefore a theological doctrine of the sin and misery of man, can be based only on