A quarter-century ago I got a letter from someone who, having read my book, The Ironic Christian’s Companion: Finding the Marks of God’s Grace in the World, posed some Big Questions to me. I’ve recently come across my response, and I think I was on to something.
On the Incarnation. The best clue I've ever had to the meaning of the claim that Jesus is God is in an exam-answer sentence from one of my students: "If God had wanted to appeal directly to our minds, Mary would have written a book