Thus these combined realities—Paul’s historic monotheism and what he says about Christ in both intentional and incidental ways—create the tensions for us on this side of Nicea and Chalcedon. On the one hand, what Paul often says about Christ should fill a monotheist with anxiety, or even horror; indeed, along with the Johannine corpus and Hebrews, Paul’s letters became a primary source for the Nicene “settlements” about God as triune (Nicea) and Christ as one person with two natures (Chalcedon).