The entire course of human history was radically altered. When we ask how we can be in dynamic communion with the Lord of glory, abiding in Christ as Christ abides in us, the sacramental Christian sees a one-to-one link between John 1:14 and John 15:4. It is by and through and in the incarnation of the Word that heaven and earth are linked, dynamically and thoroughly; this is the means by which the grace of God responds to the crisis and fragmentation of the created order. God in Christ assumes,