John’s Gospel when the author says, “In the beginning was the Logos, and the Logos was with God, and the Logos was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light of humanity” (John 1: 1–4), all grounded in the Logos becoming flesh (1:14). The early Eastern Fathers made much of this universal and corporate notion of salvation, both in art and in theology, but not so much in the West.
