The purpose of this little book is threefold: (i) to lay bare the ground on which modern Protestant theology has attempted to detach the message of the Christian Gospel from any essential relation to the structures of space and time; (ii) to examine the place of spatial and temporal ingredients in basic theological concepts and statements and to clarify the epistemological questions they involve; (iii) to offer a positive account of the relation of the incarnation to space and time, by penetrating