incarnation as itself a major energy of “re-creation” of the human race (not just its repair). Athanasius, following Irenaeus from the second century, brought to the classical redemption theories of the fourth-century East the central notion that the incarnation of the divine Logos (the en-hominization or enanthropesis, as he called it) was a divine transaction whereby the two natures (divinity and humanity) entered into a new and dynamic synthesis, forged by divine and creative energy.43 In his