church’s ongoing theological calculus.12 This is important, not least because modern Protestantism has long struggled with the life of Jesus. When the church has not found itself forcing its master awkwardly into the mold of moral exemplar (resulting in something like, “Jesus shared his bread with five thousand people and you can’t even bring a dessert to the church potluck dinner!”), it often makes the opposite error of reducing his task to simply dying for our sins, a notion which undoubtedly prompted