The Christian Incarnation is a universal human event unless we reduce Jesus Christ to a mere historical being. If we sever Christ from his humanity, he becomes a platonic ideal of perfection and an instrument of dominion and exploitation of others. If we break his humanity from his historical walking on earth and his historical roots, we convert him into a mere Gnostic figure who does not share our concrete and limited human condition. In Jesus, the finite and infinite meet; the human and divine are united; the material and spiritual are one. Whoever sees Jesus Christ sees the prototype of all
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