Our argument hitherto has been that the question of the finality of Christ is not simply a question of the relation of Christianity or of the Gospel to other religions; it is a question of the place of Jesus Christ in universal history. To speak of the finality of Christ is to speak of the Gospel as the clue to history. What does it mean thus to speak? 1. In the first place it means that one takes one’s stand on one side of what Nicol Macnicol calls ‘the great divide among