The main question animating this book is, What difference does the word becoming flesh make to our thinking and to our acting (although I am reluctant to separate these two too strenuously)? In the early church, we might say that Christology or, better, the revelation of God in Jesus Christ signaled a veritable revolution in ordinary patterns of thinking about the world. Although much ink has been spilled in noting how the figures whom I am engaging were indebted to pagan philosophy, for me what