The trick, says Kierkegaard, is to neither underestimate nor overestimate the historical. On the one hand, the incarnation of God in history is everything. The incarnation is the fulcrum of the cosmos. Creation finds its fullness in the incarnate God. The enfleshment of God in “the fullness of time” (Gal. 4:4) is the turning point of possibility for being human. On the other hand, the incarnation is not merely a historical event, nor is our proper interest in the incarnation antiquarian or documentary.
