Christ the Heart of Creation

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

It isn’t enough just to agree with the idea, in the abstract, that Jesus is, in some sense or other, God. (People often say to me, ‘Is Jesus God?’, as though we knew who ‘God’ was ahead of time, and could simply fit Jesus in to that picture.) God, as we have already seen in Revelation, is the creator, who is intimately involved with his world, and

with the doctrine of the incarnation, Christians get to have it both ways: God is certainly transcendent and utterly “other” than the universe, but in the person of Jesus Christ we believe in a human being who is also divine.

The red thread that is both the center of and the impetus to testify to Paul’s story is the experience of the ministerial being of Jesus. The plot and purpose of the story is to reveal the divine hypostasis encountering our own hypostasis.