context of Christology: it presupposes the no less mysterious possibility of the Incarnation of God. If we take seriously this mystery of God’s descent into the form of his creature—this was the seminal intuition of the Greek Fathers—the sarkōsis implies the theopoiēsis. For now the “prototype” [Urbild] (the eternal Son, enjoying eternal Sonship of the Father) has indwelt the “copy” [Abbild] and stamped his divine form upon it once and for all.46 We have to remember, however, that the divine penetration