the exaggerated claims advanced by historicity. The priority of Christ is ontological, epistemic and ethical; but the new melodies chanting who Christ is can’t be heard without first muting the tired songs derived from Cartesian subjectivism. The original sin of liberal Christianity is to reduce divine self-revelation to personal religious experience. When I was a seminarian over four decades ago, an experienced spiritual director used to take my many concerns about the spiritual life and the life