It struck me very forcibly the other week that the reason the incarnation of Christ is so important and why it really is the case that ‘through him, with him and in him’ and him alone, everything was created and all are saved, is because He is God incarnate. In him God enters our reality. I used to think that the insistence of salvation through Christ was just Christian chauvinism and that Buddhists, Hindus et al. had their own direct route which did not and had no need to involve Christ. But I have been thinking a lot about the utter transcendence of God and of the impossibility of any relationship, any connection, any bridging of the infinite void. Yet, in Christ it happened. In Christ God and our material, contingent and changing world are united.