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“Who do you say that I am?” This question that Jesus asked of his disciples, so central to his mission, became equally central to the fledgling church. How would it respond to the Gnostics who answered by saying Jesus was less than fully human? How would it respond to the Arians who contended he was less than fully God? It was these challenges that ultimately provoked the Council of Nicaea in...

revelation of the face of God came not in power or glory but in humility and grace. Who would have expected such humility in the Messiah? Who would have expected that of all the signs of his presence he could have left to the church, he would have chosen the bread and wine of the artisan? Truly “you are a hidden God,” the Scripture says.1 Just as truly he is strange in his revelation. The incarnate Word reverses the wisdom of the ways of this world, which clings to its illusions in preference to
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