Christ the Heart of Creation

Jesus Christ is more than a paradigm for what is involved here; he has become for us the very means. The humanity of Jesus has that perfect attachment or orientation to the Word in virtue of his being one with the Word, nothing apart from it; and we gain the capability of something like that through our connection to him. By the power of the Holy S

Now that the Word has taken our humanity to be its own, the Word has become in a sense proper to us, for all the difference in nature that remains between divine and human. We can be knit into the Word as never before in virtue of the fact that the Word has made our humanity its own in the incarnation.

If Christ is the key to understanding what humanity received at creation, the Word was present then, moreover, through the power of the Spirit.

The Word now has us in a new way and that means we can have the Word too in a new way, beyond what was possible for us simply as Spirit-filled creatures. Unlike Christ’s humanity, the preceding weaknesses and faults of ours will have to be purged, erased, in the process, but our humanity might some day still see the holiness of Christ’s own life th