suggestion that Athanasius was so ensnared by a philosophical notion of God’s absolute immutability that he could never imagine God ‘becoming’ anything, let alone flesh. Thus, the line goes, the Word kept himself safely detached from the spacesuit of his humanity and thus preserved his completely unchanging nature. The argument, however, has been efficiently shredded in recent years.17 First, the idea that Athanasius’ Christology was driven by such a philosophy of God’s immutability is an argument