speculations of her professed friends placed in jeopardy beliefs which lay close to the heart of her devotion and forced her to think through the implications of her belief that Christ was true man as surely as he was true God. The attack on the doctrine of the incarnation came from two directions. The first attack came from the Docetists. This label covers a group of sometimes bizarre speculations bound together by a refusal to accept that God could in any real sense become man. Its best