Christ the Heart of Creation

Limitless love has to become actively real in our world through limited human action, including suffering.

the Word is not an individual instance of divinity in the way that Jesus is an instance of humanity, and so to deny that there is any isomorphism between the divine supposit and what we normally understand by human individuality.

the identity of Jesus as human sufferer and the further identity of that suffering with the divine action are never eclipsed in the language of Christian Scripture.

an unlimited and conscious growth into an enhancement of human intelligence and love in communion with God’s infinite action.

human words, even words of pain or doubt or rebellion, are adopted as his in order that they can be transformed; and in an analogous way the Word is the persona of Jesus, taking on, becoming ‘answerable’ for, the human words, acts and sufferings of Jesus.

finitude and infinity are ‘exclusive’ in the sense that infinity is the absence of actual contingent limitation; but precisely because of this we have the paradox that the infinite cannot be ‘excluded’ from the finite in virtue of any specific property that is incompatible with some other specific property.

it is the affirmation of unequivocal divinity for the Logos that mandates the affirmation of unequivocal humanity for Jesus.

To act towards Jesus in this way continually presses on us the question of how we are to speak – about as well as to him.

There must be a sense in which we can say that the humanity of Jesus is a res, a thing in itself: it does not become a finite substance simply in virtue of the Incarnation.